Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, palak dal. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Serve Palak Dal with roti, paratha or steamed basmati rice. Pick and then rinse ½ cup pigeon pea lentils (tuvar dal or arhar dal). Learn how to make Palak Dal at home with Chef Varun Inamdar on Rajshri Food.
Palak Dal is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Palak Dal is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have palak dal using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Palak Dal:
- Take 1 cup tuvar (split pigeon lentil) dal
- Get 2 bunches spinach, chopped
- Get 2 tbsp. oil
- Get 1 onion, chopped
- Take 1 sprig curry leaves
- Take 1 tsp. mustard seeds
- Get 1/4 tsp. asafoetida (hing)
- Prepare to taste salt
- Make ready 1/2 tsp. turmeric powder
- Prepare 1 tsp. red chili powder
- Get 1 red chili powder
- Get 1 tsp. tamarind paste
- Get 1 tbsp. garlic, chopped
We will now proceed to make the healthy palak khichdi. Palak dal / pappu, rice and a little drizzle of ghee. Its easy, delicious and we south Indians can have this every single day with rice. Just this and an appalam/papad on the side makes it a complete meal.
Instructions to make Palak Dal:
- Soak the dal for 30 minutes. Then pressure cook along with the chopped spinach and 2 cups water for 3-4 whistles. When the steam is released, give it a whisk and keep aside.
- Heat 1 tbsp. oil and temper with mustard seeds. After it stops spluttering, add the asafoetida followed by the onion and curry leaves. Saute till light brown.
- Add the boiled dal, salt, turmeric powder, tamarind paste & sambar - powder. Adjust water if needed & simmer for 2-3 minutes.
- Temper the remaining oil with chopped garlic and saute till it changes colour. Switch off the flame and add the red chili powder. Mix well and pour this tempering on the prepared dal. Serve hot with rice or chapatis.
Palak or spinach dal can be made by adding it blanched & chopped or grinding it or even just sautéing chopped palak in little oil. It wilts quickly and do not over cook it or boil it. Dal Palak Recipe-Palak Dal In Pressure Cooker-Easy and Healthy Spinach Dal- Lentils with S. Lot of dishes are prepared with palak such as Palak paneer, Palak in Moong dal, Palak Sabji etc. The moong dal should be cooked soft but not mushy.
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