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

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Really Nice Recipe
Thank you. Do try it out and check out our other recipes too.