Wednesday 1 May 2013

Spinach or Palak Dal

Spinach is a mine of nutrients, rich in folic acid and whatever, I love spinach.
So What more excuse do you want to make a spinach dal.
I cook spinach dal in different ways, using different pulses, one or more sometimes. one of it is here.
Here goes the recipe,
Ingredients:
Moong dal - 1 cup,
Spinach or Palak - 2 large bunches,
Onion - 1large(finely chopped),
Tomato - 2 medium,
Ginger Garlic paste - 1tspn,
Green chillies - 1 tspn chopped,
Red chillies - 1(broken),
turmeric - 1/4 tspn.
Oil - 1tspn,
Ghee - 1Tblspn.
Asafoetide - a pinch.
Salt.


Method :Dry roast moong dal, add 21/2 cups water and cook for 1 whistle in a cooker, simmer and cook for anotherfive minutes. Cool it.
In a pan heat ghee and oil add jeera and Asafoetda let it crackle.
Add green chillies and red chillies.
Add onion and fry until soft.
Add ginger and garlic paste and fry.
Add tomatoes and fry until soft.
Add washed and chopped Spinach or Palak and fry until it wilts.
Add cooked dal and salt, mix well and give it a boil.
Switch off heat and serve with either rice or roti.

Note:
You can add juice of 1/2 a lemon.


 

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