Dal Palak Recipe – Spinach with Arhar Dal

Dal Palak recipe is a great recipe that combines both the goodness of the Arhar lentils as well as spinach leaves. Its tasty as well as healthy too.

Ingredients for Dal Palak recipe:

• 1 bunch Spinach
• 1 cup Arhar Dal
• 2 broken dry red chillies or 2 green chillies
• 1 onions finely chopped
• 2 chopped Tomatoes
• 1″ piece chopped or crushed ginger
• 3 flakes chopped garlic
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp red chilly powder
• 1 tsp ground cumin seeds or 1/2 tsp whole cumin seeds
• 1/2 tsp coriander powder
• salt
• 1 tbsp oil or ghee

Method to make Palak Dal:

1. Wash and soak dal in water for 30 mins or 45 mins. Cook the dal in a pressure cooker till 3/4 cooked.

2. In the meantime, clean and chop the spinach leaves.

3. Heat 1 tbsp oil or ghee and fry the cumin seeds, chopped onion, ginger and garlic till soft in a pan. Add the tomatoes and the rest of the masala powders. Fry for 1-2 minutes.

4. Add the boiled dal, chopped spinach and little water.

5. Cook over a low fire till the dal and the spinach leaves becomes soft.

6. You can squeeze lime juice on the dal just before serving. Lime juice gives a nice tang to this spicy dal recipe.

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