Lasuni Chilkewala Masoor Palak ( Garlic Flavored Orangish Lentil As Well As Spinach Stew ) ; Meatless Monday

Last Th eve I was running several errands. Well, nearly evenings I select errands to run, but this item day was to a greater extent than hectic than the others. The argue for this was that I had to attend the PTA coming together but earlier an lx minutes earlier that, I had to meet-up amongst the out-going treasurer for transfer of information. You see, was sort of cuckolded into the pose of treasurer for the PTA. Thursday also happens to live on my twenty-four hours for grocery shopping. In midst of all this, I had cypher for dinner. When I country nothing, I hateful cypher cooked!! When I got dwelling describe solid from worked, I rapidly cooked the rice together with the lentils inwards the pressure level cooker together with and thus left for the meetings. When I came dorsum home, I was also tired to brand anything. I wanted to railroad train spinach together with lentils separately. I decided to brand them together. The traditional dal-palak ( lentil-spinach) stew/soup is made using dissever dove peas. I decided to combine whole orangish lentil together with spinach together with brand the stew but inwards a quick fashion. I washed, chopped together with cooked the spinach along amongst 1 chopped Lycopersicon esculentum & 1 onion. I added the cooked lentils to the spinach amongst some tabular array salt together with asofoetida. I together with thus tempered this mixture amongst sautéed garlic, ruddy chilli together with garam masala powder. Delicious chili Garlic spinach-lentil stew was ready! My hubby went for seconds!!

Sometimes, the best recipes are those that you lot come upward up with, either accidentally or when inwards a hurry! Do laissez passer it a try. It is nutritious together with delicious!

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 20 mins

Total time: xxx mins

Servings: 2-3

Ingredients:

Whole orangish lentil: 1/2 cup
Water: 1 & 1/2 cups + 1/2 cup
Green chillies: 1,slit( tin live on adjusted every bit per private spice preference)
Spinach: 1 & 1/2cups, chopped
Onion: 1, small, chopped
Tomato: 1 small, chopped
Garlic: 5-6 cloves, chopped fine
Coconut oil: 1 tsp ( whatever cooking crude tin live on used).
Red chilli powder: 1/2 tsp ( tin live on adjusted every bit per private spice preference.
Asofoetida: a pinch if using powder, 1/4 tsp if using solution.
Garam masala: 1/4 tsp ( optional)
Salt: every bit per taste.

Method:

Rinse the whole orangish lentil together with add together it to a pot amongst 1 together with 1/2 cups water.
Cook until tender ( to a greater extent than or less 20 minutes on stove-top, 10 minutes if cooked inwards pressure level cooker). Turn off the flaming together with locomote on aside.

Separately railroad train the spinach amongst 1/2 loving cup water, chopped onion, Lycopersicon esculentum together with tabular array salt for 6-8 minutes. Turn off the flame.

Add the cooked lentils together with Asofoetida to this together with mix well.

In a minor frying pan/sauté pan or kadai, oestrus kokosnoot crude on medium heat.
Add the chopped garlic cloves. Sauté until garlic is fragrant.
Add the chilli pulverization together with garam masala powder. Turn off the flame( live on careful non to laissez passer the sack the chilli powder)!!

Add this to the lentils.

Serve hot amongst rice/roti/bread.

Enjoy!!

I am bringing this comfort dish to Throwback Thursday#45, Fiesta Friday#126 and Saucy Saturdays#51!

Cooking made easy:

The railroad train fourth dimension tin live on fifty-fifty lower if you lot railroad train the lentils together with spinach inwards the same pot. If using the pressure level cooker, you lot tin add together to the pot the lentils, spinach, onion together with Lycopersicon esculentum together together with railroad train it. If using the stove top, you lot tin railroad train the lentils amongst the tomatoes together with the onions together with add together the spinach towards the end.

The consistency together with sense of savor volition vary a piffling depending on the cooking method selected. If cooked inwards the pressure level cooker, it volition live on to a greater extent than soupy inwards consistent piece the stove-top volition laissez passer you lot a to a greater extent than stew-like consistency.

Tip for salubrious living:

Making wholesome soups/stews similar this non entirely makes dinner slowly but also provides for a consummate meal!

Food for thought:

Don't laissez passer upward what you lot desire most, for what you lot desire now. Unknown.