Recipe of Favorite Red Lentil Curry (daal)

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, red lentil curry (daal). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Red Lentil Curry (daal) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Red Lentil Curry (daal) is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red lentil curry (daal) using 18 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Lentil Curry (daal):

1. Get 1 pot :
2. Prepare 5 cup 5-6 cup of water in a pot
3. Make ready 1 1/2 cup Red lentils (washed)
4. Prepare 4 small 4-5 small curry leaves (food flavour and smell)
5. Get 1 tsp Garlic paste
6. Make ready 1 tsp Ginger paste
7. Get Spices
8. Get 1/2 tsp Chilli/ cayenne powder (for heat)
9. Get 1 Whole chicken bouillon cube
10. Make ready 1 tsp All spice powder (garam masala)
11. Get 1/2 tsp Cumin powder
12. Make ready 1 Salt
13. Take Separate pan
14. Get 1 medium Onion
15. Make ready 3 Curry leaves
16. Prepare 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
17. Prepare 3 tbsp Olive or canola oil
18. Get 1 Chopped coriander (cilantro) leaves to garnish

Steps to make Red Lentil Curry (daal):

1. In a pot, boil water and add in the washed red lentils when water starts boiling along with the curry leaves.
2. Cover halfway and cook at medium until lentils are tender and they turn yellow Estimated time would be from within 15-20 minutes
3. Add the garlic and ginger (mix well)
4. Add in the spices and cook on medium heat for 10 minutes
5. On a separate pan: add in the olive oil/ or your choice of oil and wait till it warms up
6. Add in the cumin seeds and the curry leaves and fry for 25 seconds
7. Add in the sliced onions and fry until brown (not burnt)
8. In the pot: add in the fried onions and mix well. Turn heat up high and stir occasionally (make sure nothing sticks) for 5 minutes
9. After 5 minutes bring the heat back to low (3) and cook for another 5 minutes until the curry thickens
10. Serve with basmati/white/brown rice or roti (flat bread)
11. Garnish it with cilantro when on the plate

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