Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, red lentil. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Red Lentil is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Red Lentil is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook red lentil using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Red Lentil:
Prepare 4 piece Kokum (optional)
Get 1 tsp Ginger Garlic paste
Take 1 tsp Tamarind paste
Take 3 clove garlic
Make ready 5 Curry leaves
Get 2 tbsp cooking oil
Prepare 1 tbsp clarified butter
Get salt
Make ready 2 medium Tomatoes
Make ready Vegetarian cuisine
Get 125 grams Red Lentil
Prepare 50 grams Black eye gram
Prepare 2 medium onion, chopped
Prepare 1 tsp Red chilly powder
Prepare 1 tsp coriander seeds powder
Make ready 1 tsp cumin seeds powder
Get 4 pinch turmeric powder
Instructions to make Red Lentil:
Heat the oil in a pressure cooker.
Put the finely chopped onions in the hot oil n let it fry till golden brown.
Once the onions are golden brown add the ginger garlic paste and stir for a couple of minutes.
Add the finely diced tomatoes, add little water if it's sticking to the base. Keep stirring.
Add the turmeric, red chilli, coriander and cumin seeds powder, and keep stirring.
After stirring for some 5 minutes add the lentils and the gram to the cooker, add water enough to go 2 inches above the Lentil.
Let the pressure cooker whistle 3 time's on high flame then reduce to low flame n keep it for 10 minutes on the fire.
After the cooker has cooled down a bit and you are able to open the cooker easily, check if the consistency is very thick add water to it. Add the kokum and let it cook on low flame. Add the tamarind paste.
In a small pan add the clarified butter once it's hot, add the curry leaves and crushed cloves of garlic. As the garlic becomes golden quickly add this to the cooker n close the lid of the cooker. After 2 minutes open n stir.
Serve it hot in a bowl. Garnish it with either coriander leaves or mint leaves.
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