Everyday Lentil and Vegetable Curry / Dal Cooked with Vegetables - Best Combo for Rice

This is a healthy dish that contains lots of veggies packed in it…I would say that it is a protein packed recipe which taste so good..Actually you can add any of your favorite vegetables in this..I made this according to the stuffs which was available in my fridge on that day..

This taste good with plain rice and any poriyal. I actually had some soya chunks cutlet along with this and it was totally yummy.. I hope you like it..

This is my DAY 4 recipe for BM which falls in the theme Seven days of Delicious Dals….Hope you like it and let me know what you think.

Recipe Source: Anjum Anand

Ingrediants:

Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu / Split Pigeon Pea Lentil– 1 cup

Onion-1 chopped

Beans – 10 chopped

Tomatoes -2 chopped

Okra / Ladys finger – 5 chopped

Brinjal – 1 chopped

Green Chilli – 2

Curry leaves -1 spring

Turmeric Powder / Manjal – ½ tsp

Urad Dal / Ulundu – 1tsp

Mustard Seeds / Kaduku -1 tsp

Sesame Seeds / Yellu – 1tsp

Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Sugar – 1 tblspn

Tamarind paste– 1tblspn

Oil – 2 tblspn

Method:

Soak toor dal for 30 mins..Drain it and add it to a pot. Cover it with water and add turmeric to it. Bring this to a boil and cook for 20 mins untill cooked.

Now heat oil in a kadai. Add mustard, urad dal, sesame seeds , cumin, onions, curry leaves , green chillies and mix well.

Add in tomatoes, beans, okra, brinjal and mix well..Fry this for 5 mins..

Now add the to the cooked dal and mix well.

Add tamarind, salt and sugar and mix well…Bring this to a boil and simmer for 10 mins.

Serve hot with rice..

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Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants

Vegetables u need

Prepare them

Soak ur  dal

drain and add it to the pot

cover with water

add turmeric to this

bring it to boil

cover and simmer

untill cooked

heat oil

add mustard and sesame seeds

add urad dal

cumin

and fry for few mins

add onions

add curry leaves and green chillies

add tomatoes

add veggies

and saute well

add it to dal..

and mix well

cook for few more minutes

add tamarind

add sugar and salt

and mix well

cover and simmer

all cooked

serve