Tetor Dal - A Healthy Immunity Booster During Summer Tetor Dal - A Healthy Immunity Booster During Summer Flavourful, simple and full of nutrients, tetor dal (Bengali Moong Dal) is sure to get an amalgamation of great taste with wholesome goodness. And yes, it does help to boost your immunity in summers. Read Time: 5 min Tetor Dal (Bengali Moong Dal) Recipe For Immunity When the bitters enter the Bengali kitchen, mostly it's cooked and consumed as the first thing to be had with rice. This is mainly because the chronology of consumption should be from the food that's most likely to be good for you to the one which is seen as the "treat" of sorts. Of course, if you grew up in a household like mine, where the treat was considered to be the fish course, you would probably be in for a bit of a disappointment as the main course often would be a thin, runny jhol of tiny, freshwater fishes with chunks of raw banana and potatoes added to it. On the outset, it sounds great, but it would be mostly consumed for "better vision, digestion, and proper development of the brain", where the child would be asked to eat the fish from its head to tail so that not a single bit of that nutrition goes to waste. For example, bitter gourd or bitter melons would form an integral part of hot summer days, especially because of its ability to deal with two ayurvedic doshas - 'Kapha and Pita' - rather solidly. Either it would be served on its own, or as a part of another dish.