Lentil Curry Recipe with step by step pictures. Lentil cooked with vegetables into a curry and taste delicious. This dish taste best when served with hot rice.
Lentil Curry Recipe
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.
How to Make Lentil Curry Recipe
- 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 until 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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Lentil Curry Recipe
Ingredients
- 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
Instructions
- 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..
Lentil Curry Recipe Step by Step
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Vegetables you need |
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| Prepare them |
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| Soak ur dal |
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| drain and add it to the pot |
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| cover with water |
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| add turmeric to this |
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| bring it to boil |
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| cover and simmer |
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| until cooked |
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| heat oil |
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| add mustard and sesame seeds |
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| add urad dal |
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| cumin |
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| and fry for few mins |
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| add onions |
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| add curry leaves and green chillies |
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| tomatoes |
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| add veggies |
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| and saute well |
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| add it to dal.. |
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| and mix well |
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| cook for few more minutes |
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| add tamarind |
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| add sugar and salt |
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| and mix well |
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| cover and simmer |
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| all cooked |
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| serve |
Roshni
looks like a kind of sambar. yummy
meena
wow aarthi u gave me brand new dish to cook.. its true at times kids make faces with normal plain dal and now with all veggies included it wud be complete meal again. thanks yaar
i would make this tomm with whatever veggies i have at home
do check out my last post on gajar ka halwa..
Kalyani's Platter
looks delicious and wonderful clicks ........
Blackswan
Love the shots, dear! What a healthy & mouth-watering dish 🙂
deepsrecipes
Looks sooo tasty...And very nutritious too..
Sharmilee! :)
Looks flavourful n yummy
faseela
a lovely combo with rice....superb
Indulge
So when can I join you for lunch. If you cook such tempting food, I am self inviting myself.
Love Ash.
divya
Mouthwatering here, wat a terrific and super tempting dish..
Archana
Wow looks very healthy
Roshu
Healthy n delicious!!!!
Preeti Garg
osume ..... look yummy
The Pumpkin Farm
yumm,lovely take on sambhar.
soujanya
Vowww!! ur last pics made me hungry!!
damn gud..
Harini
very comforting indeed!
Ganga Sreekanth
very nice preparation!!
maha
lots of veggies vth combo of dal..simple n yummy dear..loved it as always.
Stefania
it's so yummy!! nice dish
Srivalli
Very nice..simple and delicious!
Christy Gerald
Wow,Fabulous Lentils Curry with Veg Combo.
Torviewtoronto
yummy combination
Athisaya Divya
Looks delicious and healthy with the veggies and dal.
Food, Fun and Life in the Charente
This is just my sort of dish, mmmmm definately yummy tummy! Diane
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Az
Dal looks very rich.. nice combo
Hema
Yummy with lots of vegetables and full of protein..
Suma Gandlur
Perfect comfort food.
Priya
Mouthwatering here, wat a terrific and super tempting dal with loads of veggies.
Shri
Looks ready with rice; very tempting!
Chef Mireille
looks delicious, but I will sub carrots for brinjal as I dont like brinjal
Uma
tempting dal. Nice pictorial.
Rosita Vargas
Es y luce saludable una gran receta llena de vitaminas me encanta,abrazos hugs,hugs.
cookingvarieties
hi aarthi, how are you doing.. this dish looks delicious, i have never tried before..may be i follow your recipe this time. have a nice day
Kim
I really love this healthy meal dear! It looks wonderful!
RAKS KITCHEN
yumm, sounds comforting, with rice and gheee, bliss
Cham
I never did dhal with so many veggies, sounds delicious with rice!
Cher
This lentil dal looks amazing!
My daughter would love this 🙂
Smitha
thats a nice recipe...healthy and one pot dish!
SouthIndianHome
Looks delicious and yummy
Kaveri
Dal and steamed rice with a dollop of ghee is heaven. Love the addition of vegetables which makes it all the more healthy
Valarmathi Sanjeev
yummy recipe....looks tempting and delicious.
Kanchana Radhakrishnan
nice recipe.
Reshmi Mahesh
Thanks for ur lovely words at my space...Curry looks delicious...
Vijitha
My all time favorite comfort food. I will be so happy to sit with a bowl of hot rice, sambhar and potato fry 🙂
Ann
This sure does look delicious!
Asiya Omar
looks yummy and good for health also.
Mélange
This one is valuable.Nicely made and wonderfully presented.yes,we all need such a recipe.
@lekshmi
nutritious curry.........
Biny Anoop
simple and nutritious...love the combo
Nuts about food
I could eat this kind of dish every day with some rice. And as always, I love that you photograph every step to make Indian cooking more approachable to all of us..
Anzz
I agree .. a perfect accompaniment to steaming hot rice.. Lovely for a weekend lunch..! Have you joined google+ yet... have sent you an invite..!
Chandrani
Very nutritious nice combo of dal.
hemalata
Yummy n healthy combo,looks so delicious n well presented too...
Curry and Comfort
I love this all in one dal/veggie dish. Looks great!! Well done. Have a great weekend! ~ Ramona
Tina
Tasty dish here, I am liking all your Dal recipes-yum! Very healthy and tasty. Have a great weekend!
Helene Dsouza
interssting idea of addign sesame seeds. I add prety much the same ingredients to my goan dal except I add in too Ginger garlic paste for some extra flavoures. have the recipe on my blog by the way *random*.
Looks wondrful! thx for sharing! =)
have anice weekend
Maayeka
healthy and delicious daal ,nice combination of daal and veggies..loved it..
Pacheco Patty
I love lentils prepared this way with all your spices- just delicious!
Ashwini Nishil
Hello Aarthi..
Thanks dear for dropping by my space and leaving lovely comment.
You have an amazing blog with wide variety of recipes.
cheers
Ashwini
Deeps @ Naughty Curry
so nutritious, u have loaded it with everything healthy 🙂
vaishali sabnani
my my...this is awsum!!
Cool Lassi(e)
Great dhal/curry!
Christy Gerald
Truly addictive dear.
Faiyaz
Thanks alot for posting this simple yet delicious recipe. I wanted to prepare something like this. I liked the pictorial step by step description, it helps alot. I saved your blog as one of my favorites.
Anonymous
Can I add yoghurt n milk n not d tamarind water
Aarthi
@Anonymousno it wont work. it will totlly change the texture of this dal
Tanisha Singh
this was a such a fabulous broccoli yoghurt and its recipe is really simple i have to save this page for making this recipe. thanks. kati roll online order
Anonymous
Thanks a lot. My neighbour been making this wonderful dish, I love it, but been too proud to ask the recipe . I made it with ur recipe .. its really good.
priya singh
There are lots of food blogger like this But the best food recipe " Lentil Curry" is yours. Thanks for giving me this wonderful blog. I will try to make it like you.