Palak Dal | Dal Palak | Spinach Dal

May 25, 2023

Palak Dal is a nutritious, comforting dal recipe with the goodness of spinach.

Dal is a staple vegetarian dish in every Indian household. Dal, though easy is flexible enough to be prepared in countless ways. The variety of lentils used, the tactic of preparing dal and the spices utilized in the dal varies in accordance with the region.

Lentils are generally available in every Indian kitchen on account of its long shelf life and comes handy while you run out of vegetables. They are a superb source of protein for vegetarians. There’s nothing like an easy dal chawal or varan bhaat when you must have something comforting.

Palak Dal

Palak Dal is an easy, delicious dal recipe where dal is cooked with spinach and spices. Dal combined with spinach and spices makes for a hearty, comforting dish. This recipe is an incredible solution to include spinach into your food plan. Palak dal pairs excellently with steamed rice. You too can serve it with rotis/chapatis.

You should use any lentils to make this dish. I even have used a mixture of masoor dal (split red lentils) and moong dal (split green gram).

Why we love Palak Dal

Palak Dal

is delicious and comforting
is straightforward to organize
is vegan
is nutritious
is an incredible solution to include spinach in your food plan
could be served with rice in addition to rotis

List of ingredients

Lentils : I even have used masoor dal and moong dal for this recipe. You should use any lentils (tuvar dal, chana dal, or a mixture of all dals).

Vegetables : Spinach, Onion and tomato

Herbs and spices : garlic, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, asafoetida (hing) turmeric powder, green chillies, red chilly powder, cumin coriander powder and garam masala

Salt, oil

Tempering : Garlic, asafoetida (hing), red chilly powder and dry red chillies. Adding a tadka (tempering) is optional. But I might recommend adding a tadka to this dal.

Step-wise recipe with pictures

Wash and soak masoor dal and moong dal for half-hour.

After half-hour, drain the water. Transfer soaked dal to a pressure cooker. Add 2 cups of water and cook for 4 to five whistles.

Keep cooked dal aside.

Within the meantime, chop spinach and keep aside.

Chop onion and keep aside.

Chop tomato and keep aside.

Chop green chillies and garlic. Keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan. Add cumin seeds, mustard seeds and asafoetida. When the seeds starts spluttering, add chopped garlic. Saute till the garlic starts changing its color.

Add chopped onions. Saute till onions grow to be golden brown.

Add chopped green chillies chopped tomatoes. Saute till the tomato turns mushy.

Add chopped palak. Saute and cook for couple of minutes.

Add turmeric powder, red chilly powder, cumin-coriander powder and garam masala and blend well.

Add cooked dal and blend.

Add salt as per taste. Cover and cook for couple of minutes.

Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.

For tempering. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a small pan. Add chopped garlic, asafoetida, dry red chillies and red chilly powder.

Pour this tempering into palak dal.

Serve palak dal with steamed rice.

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