Dal palak

Palak/Spinach - 1 bunch
Toor dal - 1/2 cup
Moong dal - 1/3 cup
Onion - 1 medium, finely chopped
Tomato - 1 medium, finely chopped
Garlic - 4 to 5, finely chopped
Ginger - 1" piece, finely chopped
Green chillies - 1, finely chopped
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Cumin/Jeera powder - 1/4 tsp
Red chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Jeera/Cumin - 2 tsp
Ghee - 1 tbsp
Salt - to taste
Coriander leaves - 2 to 3 sprigs
Lemon juice - 1 tbsp

Method:

1. Wash toor dal and moong dal together. Pressure the dals with a pinch of turmeric till soft. Mash and keep aside.

2. Wash the spinach well and dry it. Roughly chop the spinach and keep aside.

3. Heat ghee and add jeera. Then add garlic, ginger, green chillies and saute for a minute. Then add onions and fry till it turns golden.

4. Now add the tomatoes and saute for a minute. Then add spinach, turmeric powder, cumin powder, red chilly powder, salt and mix well.

5. Saute the spinach till it becomes soft.

6. Now add the dal and combine well. Add water if its becomes too thick.

7. Remove from heat and add coriander leaves, lemon juice and mix well.

Serve hot.

Carrot Dal / Carrot soup

This recipe is from my friend Sailaja's kitchen. she made it in Insta Pot and made it like dal.
I modified to make it as soup and i made it in pressure cooker. Her recipe is below. 

Moong dal : 1/4 cup
Toor dal : 1/4 cup
Carrot - 1 big - chopped
Onion - 1/2 onion - chopped
Tomato - 2 - chopped 
g.g paste - 1/2 tsp
green chillies - 2
turmeric - 1/4 tsp
Tamarind.
urad dal - 1/4 tsp
Jeera - 1/4 tsp

1. Heal oil in a pressure cooker, add urad dal , jeera, onion and green chilli and fry nicely. 
2. Add g.g paste, fry for a min.
3. Add tomato, carrot, turmeric, tamarind fry till tomatoes are mashed.
4. Now add soaked dals and enough water and give 6 or 7 whistles.
5. Once presurre is relased. mash nicely all the ingriedents like a soup consistency
6. Add little ghee and mix well.





Sailaja's Insta Pot

Recipe:

In instapot   on saute mode,

1.put tadka with ,urad dal,chana dal,garlic, jeera,curry leaves,hing ,pinch grated ginger and chopped green chillies

2.Put 1 big carrot and 3 tomatoes,1 bunch cilantro,tamrind,turmeric fry until tomatoes turned mushy

3.take equal quantity of toor dal and yellow moon dal and put in mixture and put water according to ur consisency

turn off saute mode and turn in manual mode for 3 mins and seal the vent.


once it is done let the pressure be NPR



antey yummy dal ready

simple pappu

Toro Dal - 1 cup
tomato - 2
green chilies - 5
Turmeric - 1/2 tsp
salt

seasoning - mustard, cumin, garlic(2), broken Red chilies, Hing, curry leaves.

extra : ghee and coriander leaves.

1. Pressure cook dal, tomato, green chiles, turmeric for three whistles.
2. mash the dal
3. do the seasoning in a pan and add mashed dal and add 1 tbsp ghee and let it boil for 5 mins.

simple yet yummy.

Cabbage pappu

Cabbage pappu

Ingredients

1 cup tur dal

1 cup shredded cabbage

4 green chillies

3 tomato, chopped

salt to taste

1/2 tsp turmeric powder

Tempering:

2 tsp oil

3-4 garlic cloves. crushed

2 dry red chili

1/2 tsp cumin seeds

1/2 tsp mustard seeds

1/2 tsp urad dal

1 spring curry leaves

a pinch of asafetida

Method

• In a pressure cooker add oil, add dal and fry for 2 mins,
• Now add cabbage, slit green chillies, chopped tomato, turmeric, salt and 1 cup water and cook for 4-5 whistles or until soft.
• Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, urad dal, dry red chili, curry leaves and crushed garlic n fry till garlic turns light brown/
• Add asafetida and Add this tempering to the cooked dal.
• Set the consistency by adding little water and simmer for 5 min.
• Check the seasoning and switch off the flame.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.

Menthi kura pappu

menthi kura pappu


Heat oil in cooker
add jeera, onion fry nicely
add toor dal n fry nicely
now add methi and fry nicely
add haldi , tomato and salt
add water and give three whistles
Now mash the dal
add tadka

Sorakaya Sambar

Sorakaya Sambar

Toor Dal - Boiled
Red onions - 1 cut into cubes
tomato - 2 L chopped
green chillie - 3
curry leaves - few
corainder leaves - few
sorakaya - 1/2 chopped into cubes
tamaring water 1 cup

mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
urad dal - 1/2 tsp
salt - 1tsp
turmeric - 1/4 tsp
red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
sambar powder - 1tsp

Method:

heal oil in a wide pan.
add mustard , cumin, urad dal, curry leaves, green chillies n fry for 2mins
add onion and sorakaya fry for 5 mins
add tomatoes n cook till till gets mashed well n oil separets from tomatoes.
add red chili powder, salt, turmeric n mix well
Add boiled dal n tamaring water n let it boil for few mins.
Add sambar powder n let it boil for again 10 mins.
garnish with ghee n coriander leaves,

mom style spinach dal

Ingrediants 1

Toor dal - 1 cup
spinach - 1/2 cup
tomato - 2
turmeric - 1/2 tsp
onion - 1
green chillie - 2


Ingrediants - 2

tamarind water - 1/2 cup
salt
red chilli powder - 1tsp
water - 1/2 cup

Ingrediants -3

oil - 3 tbsp
garlic - 5 cloves little mashed
curry leaves
dry red chili
mustard
urad
hing





1. pressure cook above ingredients 1 for 5 whistles.

2. Now add ingrediants 2 and boil for 10 mins.

3. now do tampering with ingrediants 3.

now close the lid n switch off the stove.

Green Gram Dal

I got this  dal idea from my elder sis, she always tries to make healthy food at home and this dal is very regular.

Ingredients
Green Gram - 1/2 cup
onion - 1/2 sliced long
tomato - 2 chopped fine
green chillies - 2
dry red chillies - 2
mustard - 1/4 tsp
cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
urad dal - 1/4 tsp
turmeric - 1/4 tsp
salt - to taste
tamarind paste - 1/2 tsp (if u r using amchur powder , then add 3 pinches)
Cilantro - 2tbsp chopped

Method :

• Wash n soak  green gram for over night n cook for 3 whistles nicely and mash them .
• heat oil in pan add mustard, cumin and urad dal n let it splutter.
• now add garlic,red chilli and green chillies n fry nicely.
• add onion n fry till they r little brown.
• add tomato n turmeric n cook till tomatoes r mushy
• now add mashed dal n salt n tamarind paste give a nice boil .
• add 1/4 cup water if u think its thick.
• garnish with cilantro

You can eat this with Roti or Rice ..enjoyyyyyy