Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, black lentil. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Species of flowering plant with edible seeds in the family Fabaceae. The lentil (Lens culinaris or Lens esculenta) is an edible legume. It is an annual plant known for its lens-shaped seeds.
Black lentil is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Black lentil is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have black lentil using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Black lentil:
- Take 1.5 cup Black lentil
- Take 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Prepare 1/4 tsp asafoetida
- Get 3/4 tsp minced garlic
- Get 3/4 tsp minced ginger
- Make ready 1 onion finely chopped
- Make ready 2 tomatoes
- Make ready 1 tblsp avacado oil or ghee
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Take 1/2 turmeric
- Get 1/2 red chili powder
Start building layers of flavor by simmering dry lentils in stock, or doctor up plain water with a halved onion. Everything we love about lentils, without the mushy texture. Now, lentils that don't get mushy maybe doesn't sound like a life-changing thing either, but I am suddenly. Black lentils are cooked slow and low with herbs and vegetables for a tasty and filling side dish.
Steps to make Black lentil:
- Wash and soak lentil for 30 mins
- Heat oil in instant pot sauté mode or pressure cooker, add cumin, asafoetida and copped onion and sauté till onion is translucent
- Add garlic and ginger paste and sauté for another min
- Add tomatoes, salt to taste, red chili powder to taste and turmeric
- Sauté all for 5 mins.
- Add the soaked lentil and 5 cups of water
- Change the instant pot to pressure cook mode. I have a diff brand so in mine I set it to full pressure for 10 mins. You cAn start with this setting and if lentil is still hard then you will have to pressure cook it for some more time. If you are using traditional pressure cooker then pressure cook it for about 25 mins.
- After the pressure is done you can add water if the lentil is too thick and give a quick boil. If it’s too thin then just boil to reduce.
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