Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, dal palak. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Dal Palak is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Dal Palak is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Dal Palak is an easy and nutritious recipe of spinach with pigeon pea lentils. It is also one of the popular Indian lentil recipes as it combines the goodness of the pigeon pea lentils (known as arhar dal or tuvar dal in Hindi) as well as spinach (called as palak in Hindi). The combination of dal and palak is as tasty as it is loaded with nutrition. In this recipe a simple toor dal preparation gets a bunch of nutrients because of the addition of fresh spinach.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have dal palak using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Dal Palak:
- Get 1/4 cup tuvar dal (pigeon pea lentils or arhar dal)
- Make ready 1/4 cup masoor dal (pink lentils)
- Make ready 2 cups chopped spinach
- Get 1-2 green chilies, chopped
- Get 1 inch ginger, chopped
- Take 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon asafoetida (hing)
- Get 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Take 1/2 teaspoon red chili powder
- Make ready 2-2.5 cups water, for pressure cooking the dals
- Make ready 1/2-1 cup water, to be added to the dal in the last step
- Prepare 2-3 tablespoons ghee or oil
- Take As per taste Salt
- Prepare Handful Curry leaves
This simple protein rich dish is served with plain rice, chapati/ roti or different kinds of bhakri (flatbreads). Palak Dal is nothing but dal temperd with Palak tadka but that process is long and honestly not as tasty as the one I am about to share with you. I am going to prepare this Dal by first preparing the tadka of onion, ginger, garlic, palak (Spinach) and tomatoes then adding Dal to it. Dal Palak or Spinach Dal is a very simple yet delicious Indian dish made with lentils, spinach, and seasoned with few spices.
Steps to make Dal Palak:
- Dal cooking.
- Pick and wash the lentils. Take the lentils in a pressure cooker with turmeric powder.
- Add 2 to 2.5 cups of water and pressure cook for 5 to 6 whistles or till the dals become soft and mushy.
- Mash the dals and keep aside.
- For Palak–
- In a pan, heat ghee. Fry the cumin and then add the chopped ginger and fry till the raw aroma of ginger goes away.
- Add the chopped chili and fry for half a minute. Fry for a minute.Add the chopped spinach. Add red chili powder and asafoetida (hing).
- Saute for some minutes till the spinach becomes soft and stops releasing water on a medium flame.
- Now add the mashed lentils now. Mix the lentils with the spinach.
- Add water around ½ cup to 1 cup depending on how thick or thin you want the dal to be.Finally, add salt and simmer the dal for 5 to 6 minutes. Garnish with curry leaves.
- Serve dal palak hot with rice.
I am going to prepare this Dal by first preparing the tadka of onion, ginger, garlic, palak (Spinach) and tomatoes then adding Dal to it. Dal Palak or Spinach Dal is a very simple yet delicious Indian dish made with lentils, spinach, and seasoned with few spices. Learn how to make this flavorful dal palak curry, North Indian style with this easy, step-by-step recipe with pictures. There is never a dearth of curries in Indian homes. Dal Palak is a healthy sumptuous dish made from Lentils (Dal) & Spinach (Palak).
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