Dhal / Yellow Lentils Curry
Dhal / Yellow Lentils Curry

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, dhal / yellow lentils curry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Dhal / Yellow Lentils Curry is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Dhal / Yellow Lentils Curry is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook dhal / yellow lentils curry using 27 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Dhal / Yellow Lentils Curry:
  1. Take A. Cooked until tender
  2. Make ready chana dhal or yellow lentils
  3. Make ready finely diced potatoes
  4. Get B. Cooked until tender
  5. Get carrot - finely diced
  6. Prepare Medium potato - finely diced
  7. Prepare brown onion - finely diced
  8. Make ready cumin powder
  9. Get coriander powder
  10. Make ready turmeric powder
  11. Make ready chicken seasoning powder
  12. Get water
  13. Take C. Tempering
  14. Get cooking oil
  15. Get Panch Phoran
  16. Prepare curry leaves
  17. Make ready shallot - sliced
  18. Make ready dried chillies (opt)
  19. Take NOTE ON PANCH PHORAN:
  20. Take . use store bought ready-mixed Panch Phoran or mix a tbsp each of the 5 spices in a bowl. Use a tsp for this recipe
  21. Make ready . Below are the spices used and mixed; all in equal portions
  22. Get Cumin
  23. Prepare Mustard seeds
  24. Get Fennel seeds
  25. Prepare Fenugreek seeds
  26. Prepare Nigella seeds
  27. Take 👉🏻 use salt instead of chicken seasoning powder for a vegetarian dish
Steps to make Dhal / Yellow Lentils Curry:
  1. How to prepare #panchporan /#panchphoran : Below is panch phoran or panch phora. It is Usually used to temper Indian dishes.
  2. Prepare all ingredients.
  3. Soak chana dhal or yellow lentils for few hours. Soaking will help shorten the cooking time. Another way to shorten the cooking time is using pressure cooker but not everyone owns one. Some prepare this with slow cooker. Putting everything, A & B in a slow cooker and once cooked, adding C last to temper.
  4. Cooking the dhal curry - In a pot, boil A with enough water and cook until tender. Turn off the heat. Using a blender or emersion blender, roughly blend the mixture. Return to pot. Add everything in B. Again, Cook until everything is tender over medium heat. Taste and adjust seasoning. Simmer until creamy.
  5. Note on Cooking the dhal curry - blending A is optional but blending will create a creamy mixture and when B is added, you will have both creamy and soft bites texture in your dhal curry. Skip blending if your cooked dhal and potatoes in A are cooked very softly and start to break.
  6. Tempering - In the mean time, Heat cooking oil in a pan. Add panch phoran and the rest of the ingredients in C into hot oil. Mix and stir for 20 seconds or until aromatic. Turn the heat off. Pour the whole thing into the dhal pot in step 3. Stir and mix. Turn the heat off and serve with roti, paratha, dosa or rice.

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