Dal or lentils curry is an excellent and ever green combination for chapathi or rice. It is incredibly easy to prepare delicious dal curries in three different flavors. Tasty jeera dal, tomato dal, and masla dal could be swiftly prepared by adding different tempering in the lentils that are cooked and stored beforehand. Try out these easy dal recipes three ways:

MIXED DAL PREPARATION

1 cup red lentils

1 cup moong dal

¼ cup yellow lentils

¼ tsp turmeric powder

1 green chili

¼ tsp ginger

½ tsp salt

Cook the lentils with turmeric powder, green chili, ginger and salt.

JEERA DAL

Ingredients:

Dal Makhani, Indian Dish
Dal Makhani, Indian Dish

1 cup cooked dal mix (recipe above)

1tsp ghee

1½ tsp cumin

¼ tsp asafetida

2 dried chillies

1 tsp green chillies

¼ tsp pepper powder

Coriander leaves

½ tbsp lemon juice

Preparation:

Heat ghee in a pan and sauté cumin, asafetida, dried chillies and green chillies

Add the cooked dal mix

Pour some water into it and boil well

When the curry begins to boil, add the black pepper powder

Add chopped coriander leaves and finish off with lemon juice.

TOMATO DAL CURRY

Ingredients:

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south indian vegetable sambar isolated on red wooden background

1 cup dal mix

1 tsp ghee

1 tsp mustard seeds

½ tsp fenugreek

1 dried chilli

1 green chilli

¼ tsp ginger

½ tsp garlic

Half of an onion

1 tomato

½ tsp chilli powder

½ tsp salt

Coriander leaves

Preparation:

Heat ghee in a pan and add mustard and fenugreek seeds

When they splutter, add dried chilli, green chillies, ginger, and garlic

Sauté well

Into it add the onion and tomato and cook well

Then add the chilli powder and sauté until the raw smell is off

Into it add the cooked dal

Add water and salt as required

When the curry begins to boil, add chopped coriander leaves.

MASALA DAL

Ingredients:

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Indian dal. Food. Traditional Indian soup lentils. Indian Dhal spicy curry in bowl, spices, herbs, rustic black wooden background. Top view. Authentic Indian dish. Overhead. Flat lay

1 cup cooked dal

1 tsp ghee

1 tsp cumin

1 ½ tsp garlic

1 tsp ginger

1 tsp green chillies

Half of an onion

1 tomato

½ tsp salt

½ tsp garam masala

Juice of half a lemon

Preparation:

Heat ghee in a pan and sauté cumin, garlic, ginger and green chillies

Into it add tomato and onion. When the tomato has cooked, add the boiled dal mix

Add salt and water as required and boil

Add garam masala followed by lemon juice

Mix well

You could add dried mango powder instead of lemon juice.

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