SPICY SPINACH DAL

Bunch of Iron “Palak”, one of my all time favorite and I love to eat with anything I get spinach very rarely in Chennai and whenever I get I try to make something new out of it. This time I try this:-

SPICY SPINACH (PALAK )DAL

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Serving: 4-6 persons  

Ingredients

Palak (Spinach) – 1 bunch

Toor Dal – ½ cup

Channa Dal – 1/8 cup

Refined Oil – 2 tabs

Cardamom – 1

Cinnamon – 1”

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Chopped Onion – 2

Tomato – 2 ( peeled and finely chopped)

Tomato puree – 2 tabs

Coriander powder – 1 tsp

Red chilli powder – 1 tsp ( or as per taste)

Salt – as per taste

Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp

Garam Masala – 1 tsp

Cumin seeds – ½ tsp

Method :-

·         Boil toor dal and channa dal in a pressure cooker with salt and turmeric powder till it is thunder.

·         Clean, wash and chopped spinach.

·         Now heat a pan with oil and add cumin seed, cardamom and cinnamon.

·         When you get good aroma of all these above mentioned.

·         Add ginger garlic paste and fry well for 5 min

·         Put chopped onion in this and fry till it turns to golden brown colour.

·         Once onion is done and adds chopped tomato with tomato puree.

·         Add all dry masala including salt.

·         Fry all these for 5 minutes.

·         Add chopped spinach and cook till it is thunder by coving pan lid.

·         Put cooked Dal in this and mix it properly.

·         Cook till one or two boil comes.

·         Serve hot with anything you want.