Recipe: Tasty Dal palak

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Recipe: Tasty Dal palak Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Dal palak. The combination of dal and palak is as tasty as it is loaded with nutrition. In this recipe a simple toor dal preparation gets a bunch of nutrients because of the addition of fresh spinach. This is all you need along with some steamed rice to have a meal that is healthy and tasty.

Dal palak is nothing but lentils cooked with spinach & tempered with basic Indian spices.

It is a healthy, delicious and one of the most made palak recipes in Indian homes.

This simple protein rich dish is served with plain rice, chapati/ roti or different kinds of bhakri.

You can cook Dal palak using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Dal palak

  1. Prepare 1 cup of green gram (soaked in water for 10 mins).

  2. Prepare 1 cup of spinach washed and roughly chopped.

  3. It’s 1 inch of ginger sliced.

  4. It’s 4 of Garlic cloves sliced.

  5. It’s 4 of green chillies chopped.

  6. Prepare 1 of tomato chopped.

  7. It’s 1 tsp of turmeric powder.

  8. Prepare to taste of salt and red chilli powder.

  9. Prepare as needed of water.

  10. Prepare of FOR TEMPERING.

  11. It’s 1 of onion sliced.

  12. Prepare 1 tsp of cumin seeds.

  13. It’s 2 tsp of corinader leaves.

Dal Palak - No Onion No Garlic Version.

Made in a stovetop pressure cooker.

Vegan Dal Palak - Made with onions and garlic in an Instant pot.

Both the recipes are shared with step by step photos and taste good.

Dal palak instructions

  1. First step wash and soak dal for 10 mins,slice ginger,garlic and chop chillies.wash and roughly chop spinach..

  2. Now take lentils in a vessel, add 2 cups of water,ginger, garlic, chillies, red chilli powder,turmeric powder and tomato mix well.now cook till lentils are soft and has absorbed all water.now again add 2 cups of water.

  3. Now simmer for 5 mins,dont smash the lentils. Add salt and mix well.now add spinach and simmer for 5 mins.now heat 3 tbsn oil in a pan..

  4. When onions start to turn brown add the cuminseeds, when it splitter, temper the dal and garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot with rice,salad and khubus and enjoy😊 Please subscribe my #youtube blog Tanvi.s 25 yummy food blog..

So you can make either of them depending upon the gadgets you have.

My personal favorite is the no onion no garlic version.

How to make Dal Palak - This is a very simple and probably the most healthy Dal recipe you can make in a short amount of time.

For this recipe we use Toor Dal / Arhar Dal / Pigeon Pea.

This is traditional Indian dal used in a lot of recipes.