Dal Palak | Home style palak dal | Dal Recipes
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Recipe type: Lunch
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 3-4 people
 
Comforting and tasty, loaded with nutrition, home style dal palak
Ingredients
  • 200 Gm palak/spinach
  • 1 Cup boiled toor dal
  • 1 + ½ Tbsp oil
  • ½ Tsp jeera
  • 1 finely chopped onions
  • 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 puréed tomato
  • ¼ Tsp red chilli powder
  • ¼ Tsp turmeric
  • ½ Tsp garam masala
  • ½ Tsp crushed kasuri methi
Method
  1. Boil/pressure cook toor dal till soft, mash and keep aside
  2. Wash palak in plenty of water, drain well
  3. Heat ½ Tbsp oil in a pan, add washed and chopped palak, let it wilt
  4. Once palak cools down, grind into a rough puree or chop finely, keep aside
  5. Heat oil in a pan, add jeera and let them splutter
  6. Saute ginger-garlic paste and chopped onions
  7. Add puréed tomato and mix well
  8. Add turmeric, red chilli powder and garam masala and mix well
  9. Tip in chopped/puréed palak and mashed dal and mix
  10. Add salt to taste
  11. Sprinkle kasuri methi and boil for 1 more minute
  12. Serve hot with rice or chapathis
Notes
You can only add kasuri methi at the end and skip tomato if you prefer or vice versa

This dal can also be made without ginger-garlic but is good for digestion and of course adds a lot of flavour

Mung dal palak also tastes really good and I generally make Karnataka style palak tovve
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/dal-palak/