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

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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..

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
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Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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  2. 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..

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  54. 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..!

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  59. 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

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  67. 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.

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  71. 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.

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