Masoor Dahl (Red Lentil Curry) with Rice
Masoor Dahl (Red Lentil Curry) with Rice

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, masoor dahl (red lentil curry) with rice. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have masoor dahl (red lentil curry) with rice using 18 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Masoor Dahl (Red Lentil Curry) with Rice:
  1. Take 1 cups lentils (red kind)
  2. Get 4 cups water
  3. Get 2 onion
  4. Prepare 2 tomato
  5. Get to taste Ginger root
  6. Make ready cloves Garlic to taste
  7. Prepare Ground cumin
  8. Make ready Ground garam masala
  9. Get Ground coriander
  10. Get Ground cardamom
  11. Get Chili powder
  12. Prepare Cayenne pepper
  13. Make ready Ground turmeric
  14. Get Salt
  15. Take Ghee or oil
  16. Make ready Fresh Coriander
  17. Get Ground cinnamon
  18. Prepare 1 cup rice
Steps to make Masoor Dahl (Red Lentil Curry) with Rice:
  1. Wash and rinse the rice. Then cook your rice per package directions and set aside. While rice is cooking wash and rinse your lentils then set aside
  2. Dice onion garlic ginger tomato and set aside
  3. In a bowl, proportion your spices to taste and set aside. I usually lead with turmeric and cumin as 11/2tsp ea followed by the rest at 1/4 to 1/2 tsp ea. You could just use a curry powder if you want. Proportion to taste. I used a curry powder (big pile on white cutting board) in the below photo along with some other spices. I did use a measuring spoon because it makes cool little piles)
  4. Heat ghee or oil in a pot then saute the onion until brown over medium high heat
  5. Add garlic and ginger to pot then saute for another 1 minutes or so
  6. Add diced tomato and saute for another 2 minutes or so
  7. Add spices and mix into the masala and let them cook for 1 minute or so
  8. Add lentils and mix until coated in spices
  9. Add water, start with 2 cups in and then bring to boil then turn heat down and simmer covered for 20 to 30 minutes. Make sure to check it and give it a stir every so often. Add additional water as needed to form your desired consistency. (Blury photo)
  10. Chop the coriander then add to the pot. Reserve some leaves to add to each serving. Below photo was taken before I added some coriander to my bowl
  11. You can do the same thing with chickpeas (channa dahl) just follow direction for preparing/cooking dried chickpeas or use canned version. I prefer the dried pulses.
  12. You can also omit the pulse and just add chicken and potato to make a chicken curry dish. I guess that is another receipe…lol

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