substitutes
Toor Dal substitutes
Out of toor dal? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to toor dal in flavor space. Chana Dal is closest at 77%.
- 01Chana Dal77% flavor match
- 02Sambar Powder73% flavor match
- 03Kashmiri Chili67% flavor match
- 04Panch Phoran67% flavor match
- 05Horse Gram66% flavor match
- 06Fenugreek Seed65% flavor match
- 07Masoor Dal63% flavor match
- 08Mustard Seed62% flavor match
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Each match is the nearest neighbour to toor dal in Epicure, a food-science model mapping the aroma compounds of ~1,790 ingredients across 4 million recipes. The percentage is their flavor-space similarity. Taste as you go — substitutes shift texture and intensity too.
Flavor data: Epicure (Radzikowski & Chen, 2026), arXiv:2605.22391, CC-BY-4.0.