Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Favorite Black lentil

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, black lentil. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Black lentil is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Black lentil is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

The lentil (Lens culinaris or Lens esculenta) is an edible legume. It is an annual plant known for its lens-shaped seeds. Vigna mungo, the black gram, urad bean, ulundu paruppu, minapa pappu, mungo bean or black matpe bean (māṣa) is a bean grown in the South Asia. Black lentils are less well known than their brown, green, and red counterparts.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have black lentil using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Black lentil:

1. Make ready 1.5 cup Black lentil
2. Make ready 1 tsp cumin seeds
3. Make ready 1/4 tsp asafoetida
4. Prepare 3/4 tsp minced garlic
5. Take 3/4 tsp minced ginger
6. Take 1 onion finely chopped
7. Take 2 tomatoes
8. Prepare 1 tblsp avacado oil or ghee
9. Make ready to taste Salt
10. Make ready 1/2 turmeric
11. Get 1/2 red chili powder

Braised black lentils, also known as beluga lentils, since they resemble the most prized of all caviar. Black lentils are deliciously rich and earthy, and they can take on a wide range of flavors. Start building layers of flavor by simmering dry lentils in stock, or doctor up plain water with a halved onion. This Mediterranean black lentil salad is a healthy easy side for summer.

Steps to make Black lentil:

1. Wash and soak lentil for 30 mins
2. Heat oil in instant pot sauté mode or pressure cooker, add cumin, asafoetida and copped onion and sauté till onion is translucent
3. Add garlic and ginger paste and sauté for another min
4. Add tomatoes, salt to taste, red chili powder to taste and turmeric
5. Sauté all for 5 mins.
6. Add the soaked lentil and 5 cups of water
7. Change the instant pot to pressure cook mode. I have a diff brand so in mine I set it to full pressure for 10 mins. You cAn start with this setting and if lentil is still hard then you will have to pressure cook it for some more time. If you are using traditional pressure cooker then pressure cook it for about 25 mins.
8. After the pressure is done you can add water if the lentil is too thick and give a quick boil. If it’s too thin then just boil to reduce.

Start building layers of flavor by simmering dry lentils in stock, or doctor up plain water with a halved onion. This Mediterranean black lentil salad is a healthy easy side for summer. Though they differ in color and size, all lentils are nutritious edible seeds that are often overlooked. This article tells you everything about lentils, their nutrition, benefits and how to cook them. Everything we love about lentils, without the mushy texture.

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