Palak Dal Restaurant Style | दाल पालक | मूंग दाल पालक होटल जैसे

• Dal palak is made from cooked lentils and spinach leaves. We have made this yummy dal palak using moong dal/ split green gram.
• Palak Dal is a very popular North Indian lentil recipe. It has the nutrition from the lentils/ dal as well as spinach/ palak.
• Dal Palak is easy to make.
• This dal is very aromatic. It can be had as a soup or had with roti or jeera rice.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup is 250 ml in our recipes
• 1 cup split green gram/ moong dal
• 500 grams spinach/ palak
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder while cooking dal and 1/4 tsp while cooking spinach
• 2 big tomatoes weighing 200 grams together chopped
• salt
• 3 tbsp oil
• 10 cloves of garlic
• 1 onion/ 4 tbsp finely chopped onions
• 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
• 3 green chilies chopped fine
• 1 tbsp Kashmiri red chilli powder
• 1 tbsp coriander powder
• 1/2 tbsp cumin powder/ jeera powder
• 1 tbsp mango powder
• for tempering:
• 1.5 tbsp ghee
• 5 cloves garlic
• 2 red chillies
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1/2 tsp asafoetida/ hing
• 1/2 tsp garam masala

Procedure:

• Wash the 1 cup of dal well.
• Drain the dal and transfer to a pressure cooker.
• Add 3 cups of water
• Add 1/2 tsp turmeric powder, salt and 2 chopped tomatoes.
• Close the pressure cooker and put the lid on.
• We needed to allow 1 whistle.
• Wash the half kilo of palak well. Chop fine.
• Heat 3 tbsp oil
• Add 10 cloves of garlic after chopping
• saute and when the colour of garlic changes slightly, add the chopped onion.
• Stir until onions become translucent.
• Add 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste.
• Add the 3 green chillies finely chopped.
• Stir for a minute.
• Add chopped spinach
• Mix well and stir. Cover and cook on a low flame for about 4 minutes.
• After 4 minutes remove the lid and add 1/4 tsp turmeric powder, 1 tbsp red chilli powder (we used Kashmiri), 1 tbsp coriander powder, 1/2 tbsp cumin powder, 1 tbsp dry mango powder/amchur powder.
• Mix well and stir.
• Cover and cook for 2 minutes on a low flame.
• After 2 minutes, remove the lid and add 3 cups of hot water.
• Mix well and cover and cook for 2 minutes.
• Check the dal in the cooker after the pressure is gone.
• Add the cooked dal and tomatoes to the spinach that we covered and cooked for 2 minutes.
• Add salt if needed.
• Switch off the flame after 1 boil.
• Now heat 1.5 tbsp of ghee in a small skillet.
• Add 5 cloves of garlic, 2 red chillies, 1 tsp cumin seeds, 1/2 tsp asafoetida/ hing and 1/2 tsp garam masala. Switch off the flame and add this tempering to the dal palak.
• Serve yummy dal palak with rice/ jeera rice/ rotis.
• You may want to check another yummy palak and mixed greens sabzi called sai bhaji.
• See more dal recipes – restaurant style dal fry tadka , dal tadka recipe, dal khichdi, moong dal khichdi, varan or Maharashtrian dal.
• All the healthy green recipes here