Recipe

Dal Recipe

	Rich_banff / All my dishes 2 years, 4 months ago A creamy lentil curry from India, Its cheap, healthy and quick to make. Serve with some rice. Prep:1015m Cook:2030m Servings:23	Rich_banff
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Ingredients

This is a rough estimate of the amount of ingredients, as I always just guess the amounts. It's pretty hard to mess it up so dont worry about the proprotions.

2-3 Cups of red lentlis

I Medium white onion, diced

1-2 Garlic cloves, minced or finely chopped. (depending on how much you like the stuff)

I Inch ginger, grated or finely chopped

1 Green chllli (hot), chopped and seeded

1 Tsp jeera (cumin)

0.5 Tsp tumeric

1 Tsp chilli powder

2-3 Cloves (Optional)

Handful of fresh corrinader leaves, roughly chopped (Optional, but makes it taste so much better!)

1 Tbl vegeatble oil, for frying (sunflower works best)

Salt and pepper, to taste

Directions

Chop the onion, garlic, chilli, ginger etc.

Heat a saucepan to a medium heat and fry the spices (Jeera, tumeric, chilli powder) in the oil. Stir for a few minutes, and let the spices (masala) cook. You will know its cooked, when oil starts to bubble up throught the spices.

Add the onion, ginger, garlic and green chilli. Fry for a few more minutes, until the onion is sweated.

Add the lentils and some water.

Let the water reduce, and add more water. repeat this step until the lentils are cooked. You can tell when they are cooked when they squash easily in your fingers, and are roughly twice their original size.

Add salt and pepper to taste.

Add fresh corriander and stir in to dal.

Serve with rice.

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Comments

erisgrrrl 2 years ago said:
I only recently learned of dal on a visit to the Kabob Palace in washington DC. I'll have to try this now that we're home!