Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, red lentil. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Red Lentil is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Red Lentil is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have red lentil using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Red Lentil:
- Take 4 piece Kokum (optional)
- Get 1 tsp Ginger Garlic paste
- Take 1 tsp Tamarind paste
- Prepare 3 clove garlic
- Get 5 Curry leaves
- Take 2 tbsp cooking oil
- Prepare 1 tbsp clarified butter
- Get salt
- Make ready 2 medium Tomatoes
- Prepare Vegetarian cuisine
- Take 125 grams Red Lentil
- Prepare 50 grams Black eye gram
- Prepare 2 medium onion, chopped
- Prepare 1 tsp Red chilly powder
- Prepare 1 tsp coriander seeds powder
- Make ready 1 tsp cumin seeds powder
- Make ready 4 pinch turmeric powder
Steps to make Red Lentil:
- Heat the oil in a pressure cooker.
- Put the finely chopped onions in the hot oil n let it fry till golden brown.
- Once the onions are golden brown add the ginger garlic paste and stir for a couple of minutes.
- Add the finely diced tomatoes, add little water if it's sticking to the base. Keep stirring.
- Add the turmeric, red chilli, coriander and cumin seeds powder, and keep stirring.
- After stirring for some 5 minutes add the lentils and the gram to the cooker, add water enough to go 2 inches above the Lentil.
- Let the pressure cooker whistle 3 time's on high flame then reduce to low flame n keep it for 10 minutes on the fire.
- After the cooker has cooled down a bit and you are able to open the cooker easily, check if the consistency is very thick add water to it. Add the kokum and let it cook on low flame. Add the tamarind paste.
- In a small pan add the clarified butter once it's hot, add the curry leaves and crushed cloves of garlic. As the garlic becomes golden quickly add this to the cooker n close the lid of the cooker. After 2 minutes open n stir.
- Serve it hot in a bowl. Garnish it with either coriander leaves or mint leaves.
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