Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, red lentil. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
The lentil (Lens culinaris or Lens esculenta) is an edible legume. It is an annual plant known for its lens-shaped seeds. As a food crop, the majority of world production comes from Canada and India.
Red Lentil is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Red Lentil is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have red lentil using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Red Lentil:
- Take 4 piece Kokum (optional)
- Get 1 tsp Ginger Garlic paste
- Get 1 tsp Tamarind paste
- Prepare 3 clove garlic
- Take 5 Curry leaves
- Prepare 2 tbsp cooking oil
- Prepare 1 tbsp clarified butter
- Make ready salt
- Make ready 2 medium Tomatoes
- Make ready Vegetarian cuisine
- Make ready 125 grams Red Lentil
- Prepare 50 grams Black eye gram
- Make ready 2 medium onion, chopped
- Prepare 1 tsp Red chilly powder
- Prepare 1 tsp coriander seeds powder
- Take 1 tsp cumin seeds powder
- Get 4 pinch turmeric powder
From soups to appetizers, veggie burgers and hearty shepherd's pie, lentils bring a powerful protein punch to your. Wikipedia Article About Red Lentil on Wikipedia. Red lentils are one of the most common types of lentil, and the best known among the red lentils is the Red Chief. It's a lovely salmon pink in its dried form, but it turns golden when cooked.
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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