Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, spinach dal. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Dal in any form is an Indian comfort food. Every region of India has its own variation and unique way of cooking dal. At times, I have mixed couple of lentils to cook a really delicious and healthy dal!
Spinach Dal is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Spinach Dal is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have spinach dal using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Spinach Dal:
- Make ready 1 bunch Spinach leaves finely chopped
- Prepare 1 Cup tuar dal
- Take 2 big onions finely chopped
- Make ready 2 tbsp ginger garlic green chilli paste
- Take 2 tomatoes finely chopped
- Get 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
- Get 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Get 1 tsp turmeric powder
- Prepare 1 tbsp ghee
- Make ready as needed oil
- Prepare as needed water
- Take to taste salt
The cumin seeds will start to darken and the mustard seeds may start to pop when it's time to add broth. Add some chopped spinach to the infused butter, cook until wilted, and stir it all into the dal. This filling recipe makes a generous amount, so be sure to steam plenty of rice for leftovers. What to buy: This dal is made with yellow split peas (called channa dal), but you can substitute other varieties like red or green lentils or split chickpeas.
Steps to make Spinach Dal:
- Firstly, thoroughly wash and chop all the veggies - spinach leaves, tomatoes, onions and ginger garlic green chillis and keep aside.
- Then heat oil in a pressure cooker, add cumin seeds let it crackle now add chopped ginger garlic green chilli paste, saute for a minute, add chopped onions and saute till onions turn golden brown, now add chopped tomatoes, turmeric powder and red chili powder, saute till tomatoes are soft and mushy and oil separates from sides.
- Now add chopped Spinach leaves and saute for 2-3 mins.
- Finally add washed toor dal and salt. Cover the lid of the pressure cooker and take 6 whistles.
- While serving add clarified butter or ghee from above.
- Garma garam tasty, healthy Spinach Dal is ready to serve with steamed rice.
- Thank you
Instant Pot Spinach Dal or as it is popularly called in India - Dal Palak. This is a comforting lentil soup with spinach mixed in it for extra nutrition. Making this in the pressure cooker is a snap. 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).
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