Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, palak dal (lentils with spinach). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Palak dal (lentils with spinach) is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Palak dal (lentils with spinach) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

Palak and dal go very well together. In India we do add veggies to dal and spinach dal is one of those recipes. Pick and then rinse ½ cup pigeon pea lentils (tuvar dal or arhar dal) a couple of times in water.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have palak dal (lentils with spinach) using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Palak dal (lentils with spinach):

1. Take 1 cup lentil Yellow (toor dal)
2. Make ready 2 cups Spinach (chopped)
3. Take 1 Onion medium (chopped)
4. Make ready 1 tsp Cumin seeds
5. Make ready 1 tsp Mustard seeds
6. Take 6 - 8 cloves Garlic (chopped)
7. Make ready 3 - 4 red chili Whole (dried)
8. Prepare 2 Tomato (finely chopped)
9. Prepare ½ tsp Turmeric
10. Make ready Salt as per taste
11. Prepare 2 cups Water
12. Prepare 1 tsp Lemon juice
13. Make ready 2 tbsps Oil
14. Make ready 2 tsps Ghee
15. Make ready 8 - 10 , cloves Garlic finely sliced or crushed
16. Get 1 tbsp ghee oil or

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Steps to make Palak dal (lentils with spinach):

1. Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add mustard seeds and cumin seeds. Allow them to crackle.
2. Add chopped garlic, fry till golden brown. Add dried chilies, fry.
3. Add spinach and chopped onions, fry well on high heat for 2 – 3 mins.
4. Add tomatoes, sauté for 1-2 mins.Reduce the heat to medium, add dal, turmeric and salt, continue to sauté for another 2-3 mins.
5. Add 2 cups of water and ghee, pressure cook till done.
6. Finally add lemon juice, simmer for another 2-3 minutes.For tempering, heat oil or ghee in small pan, add sliced garlic, fry till golden brown and release lovely aroma. pour this tempering over the dal.
7. There you go….Palak dal is ready to be served…

Yellow mung dal/lentils are roasted till aromatic and then cooked with spinach and tempered with spices. I have different kinds of Palak Dal that I make at home. This one here is my favorite, not just because it tides in nostalgia, but also because of the roasted mung dal that is used here. Palak Dal Recipe is another dal recipe from my blog made with spinach leaves and toor dal or toovar dal or pigeon peas. The lentils are packed with wonderful health benefits and each dal has its own benefit.

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