Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, red lentil curry (daal). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Red Lentil Curry (daal) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Red Lentil Curry (daal) is something that I have loved my whole life.
Red Lentil Dal is the perfect plant-based Indian meal! Rich, fragrant, and packed with protein for a meal you can feel good about. Dal (sometimes spelled 'dhal', 'dahl' or 'daal') is one of my very favorite Indian dishes because of how quickly it is made.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook red lentil curry (daal) using 18 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Red Lentil Curry (daal):
- Prepare 1 pot :
- Take 5 cup 5-6 cup of water in a pot
- Take 1 1/2 cup Red lentils (washed)
- Take 4 small 4-5 small curry leaves (food flavour and smell)
- Make ready 1 tsp Garlic paste
- Make ready 1 tsp Ginger paste
- Prepare Spices
- Get 1/2 tsp Chilli/ cayenne powder (for heat)
- Prepare 1 Whole chicken bouillon cube
- Take 1 tsp All spice powder (garam masala)
- Get 1/2 tsp Cumin powder
- Take 1 Salt
- Get Separate pan
- Make ready 1 medium Onion
- Prepare 3 Curry leaves
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
- Prepare 3 tbsp Olive or canola oil
- Take 1 Chopped coriander (cilantro) leaves to garnish
Dal can be made thick or thin, and with any kind of lentil. Creamy, spicy, delicious red curry lentils, made in the Instant Pot. It's almost embarrassingly easy: lentils, cooked with a can of tomato sauce, some warm spices, and the essential onion-garlic-ginger trifecta, and made creamy with a little bit of coconut milk and/or butter and/or ghee. Quick and easy Red Lentil Curry, also known as Masoor Dal, made in the instant pot along with pot-in-pot basmati rice.
Instructions to make Red Lentil Curry (daal):
- In a pot, boil water and add in the washed red lentils when water starts boiling along with the curry leaves.
- Cover halfway and cook at medium until lentils are tender and they turn yellow Estimated time would be from within 15-20 minutes
- Add the garlic and ginger (mix well)
- Add in the spices and cook on medium heat for 10 minutes
- On a separate pan: add in the olive oil/ or your choice of oil and wait till it warms up
- Add in the cumin seeds and the curry leaves and fry for 25 seconds
- Add in the sliced onions and fry until brown (not burnt)
- In the pot: add in the fried onions and mix well. Turn heat up high and stir occasionally (make sure nothing sticks) for 5 minutes
- After 5 minutes bring the heat back to low (3) and cook for another 5 minutes until the curry thickens
- Serve with basmati/white/brown rice or roti (flat bread)
- Garnish it with cilantro when on the plate
Dal Spices- Dal is made with far less spices than most Indian curries! This recipe calls for a simple combination of cumin, garam masala and turmeric. Garam masala is a spice mix found in supermarkets nowadays - it's like a more potent curry powder. The BEST Red Lentil Dahl (dhal, dal, daal)! This daal is really easy to make.
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