Dal Palak | Spinach Dal
Servings 4 People
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup toor dal (split pigeon pea lentils)
- 2 cups palak or spinach chopped
- 1/2 medium sized onion finely chopped
For seasoning:
- 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds / jeera seeds
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- 2 dry red chillies torn or 1 green chili (slit)
- A pinch asafoetida or 1/4 teaspoon asafoetida powder
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon red chili powder
- 4 pods garlic peeled and finely chopped
- 2 teaspoon oil/ghee
- Few corriander leaves chopped for garnish
- To taste Salt
Instructions
- Wash the toor dal or lentils and keep aside for 30 minutes.
- Take the pressure cooker pan and heat it. Add chopped onion, chopped palak and toor dal along with 2 cups water and pressure cook for 4 to 5 whistles or till dal is cooked. Switch off the gas and wait till pressure from cooker is released on its own.
- Heat a kadai and add oil or ghee. After it gets heated add mustard seeds.
- After mustard seeds flutter, add cumin seeds, asafeotida, dry red chilies and curry leaves and fry for few 2 minutes.
- Add chopped garlic and chopped ginger and sauté till raw smell of garlic goes away.
- Add turmeric powder and red chili powder and mix well.
- Add boiled dal, onion and palak from the pressure cooker and mix.
- Add salt to taste and mix well.
- Garnish with chopped coriander leaves. Serve hot.
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Notes
- You may use green chili instead of dry red chili.
- Addition of onion is optional.
- If you don't have curry leaves, you can still make this dal and it will still turn delicious.