Dal Palak
Dal Palak

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, dal palak. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Dal Palak is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Dal Palak 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 dal palak using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Dal Palak:
  1. Make ready 1/4 cup tuvar dal (pigeon pea lentils or arhar dal)
  2. Make ready 1/4 cup masoor dal (pink lentils)
  3. Prepare 2 cups chopped spinach
  4. Make ready 1-2 green chilies, chopped
  5. Make ready 1 inch ginger, chopped
  6. Take 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
  7. Get 1/4 teaspoon asafoetida (hing)
  8. Take 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
  9. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon red chili powder
  10. Make ready 2-2.5 cups water, for pressure cooking the dals
  11. Prepare 1/2-1 cup water, to be added to the dal in the last step
  12. Make ready 2-3 tablespoons ghee or oil
  13. Prepare As per taste Salt
  14. Make ready Handful Curry leaves
Instructions to make Dal Palak:
  1. Dal cooking.
  2. Pick and wash the lentils. Take the lentils in a pressure cooker with turmeric powder.
  3. Add 2 to 2.5 cups of water and pressure cook for 5 to 6 whistles or till the dals become soft and mushy.
  4. Mash the dals and keep aside.
  5. For Palak–
  6. In a pan, heat ghee. Fry the cumin and then add the chopped ginger and fry till the raw aroma of ginger goes away.
  7. Add the chopped chili and fry for half a minute. Fry for a minute.Add the chopped spinach. Add red chili powder and asafoetida (hing).
  8. Saute for some minutes till the spinach becomes soft and stops releasing water on a medium flame.
  9. Now add the mashed lentils now. Mix the lentils with the spinach.
  10. Add water around ½ cup to 1 cup depending on how thick or thin you want the dal to be.Finally, add salt and simmer the dal for 5 to 6 minutes. Garnish with curry leaves.
  11. Serve dal palak hot with rice.

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