Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, kerala style dal palak. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
This Kerala style dal recipe uses spinach along with spices and coconut. It is a comforting & healthy dal that is made often in every Kerala home. Dal Palak is an easy and nutritious recipe of spinach with pigeon pea lentils. It is also one of the popular Indian lentil recipes as it combines the goodness of the pigeon pea lentils (known as arhar dal or tuvar dal in Hindi) as well as spinach (called as palak in Hindi).
Kerala Style Dal Palak is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Kerala Style Dal Palak is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kerala style dal palak using 22 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Kerala Style Dal Palak:
- Make ready For Cooked Dal:
- Prepare 1 Cup Tur Dal
- Prepare 1 Bay leaf
- Take 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Get For Masala Paste:
- Get 3 Small onions
- Get 3 cloves garlic
- Make ready 3 Fresh Chillies
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Get 1 cup Grated Coconut
- Take 2 tsp Cumin Seed
- Get For Cooking:
- Prepare 2 bunches Palak (Spinach) chopped
- Prepare 1 tsp mustard seeds
- Prepare 1 tsp Cumin seeds
- Get 6-7 curry leaves
- Prepare 1 onion Chopped
- Make ready 1 Tomato Chopped
- Get 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp chilli powder
- Take 1 tsp coriander powder
This dish is an easy to make side dish for rice which has spinach, dal / lentils, coconut and cumin seeds as the main ingredient. This is a very comfort dish which can be served with rice or with roti. 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.
Steps to make Kerala Style Dal Palak:
- In a pressure cooker, add the ingredients mentioned in section cooked dal. Pressure cook for 4 whistles.
- In a wet grinder jar, add the ingredients mentioned in the section Masala paste and grind it to a paste.
- Mash the cooked dal to a paste.
- In a pan, add oil. When the oil is heated then add mustard seeds, Cumin seeds, Curry leaves, Onion Chopped, Tomato Chopped, Turmeric Powder, chilli powder, coriander powder and saute.
- Add Masala paste and chopped palak, Stir well with 1/4 cup of water.
- Add the cooked dal and 1 cup of water. Add salt if necessary.
- Cook for 10 mins covered and your Kerala Style Dal Palak is ready to be served.
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 (flatbreads). Heat oil in a kadai add mustard, when it splutters add red chilli sauté for a minute. Grind coconut, cumin seeds, onion and green chilly in a mixer.
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