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Daal Hariyali Recipe I How To Make Daal Hariyali

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Daal hariyali -Delicious and  easy to make restaurant style daal hariyali 

Daal hariyali- Pigeon peas /tuvar daal cooked with spinach and mild and  fragrant spices. It is much healthier then the normal daal as spinach is added in this. Kids usually don’t like to eat spinach but this Daal hariyali is so colorful and delicious that even kids will eat this without any fuss.
You add any other green also with spinach to add nutrition and flavor in this healthy daal, you can add some chopped methi , amaranth leaves or dill leaves with spinach, then also it taste very nice. You can serve this daal with plain roti or paratha or just with some steamed rice and salad .
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4.67 from 3 votes

Daal Hariyali, Lentil with spinach

Pigeon pea cooked with spinach and basic spices
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Total Time20 minutes
Course: Lentil/Daal, Main Course
Cuisine: North Indian Cuisine
Keyword: daal, hariyali, palak, spinach, tuvar daal
Servings: 4 people
Author: Anjana Chaturvedi

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup Pigeon Pea / Tuvar / Arhar ki daal
  • 200 gm Spinach /palak
  • 2 Green chilies/Hari Mirch
  • 1 tsp Ginger / Adrak grated
  • 2 tsp Lemon Juice / Nimbu Ka Ras
  • 1.5 tbsp Fresh Cream optional
  • 2 tsp Clarified Butter / Desi Ghee
  • 1 tsp Salt / Namak
  • 1/3 tsp Turmeric Powder / Haldi Powder

Tempering / tadka

  • 2 tsp Clarified Butter / Desi Ghee
  • 1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
  • 2 Green Cardamom / Hari Elaichi
  • 2 Cloves / Lavang
  • 1/3 inch Cinnamon /daalchini
  • 2 dried whole red chilies

Instructions

  • Trim and remove the thick steams of spinach and wash the leaves well
  • Wash and soak tuvar/arhar daal(lentil) in water for 1/2 hour.
  • Pressure cook lentil with 1.5 cup water for 3 whistles or till done, then mash gently with a whisk.
  • Boil 1.5 glass water in a pan ,add 1/2 tsp sugar ,when water start boiling add in the spinach and cook for a minute,or till leaves start wilting.
  • Drain and then refresh spinach in cold water,take out 1/3 leaves seperately and chop them and grind the rest with green chilies.
  • Heat ghee (clarified butter) in a pan ,add cumin seeds,cardamom (slightly crush to open the mouth) ,cloves ,cinnamon and 2 whole red chilies.
  • When cumin start crackling add grated ginger and chopped spinach ,saute for a while .
  • Now add boiled and mashed lentil, spinach puree and 1.5 to 2 cup water(according to the thickness you need).
  • Add salt,1/4 tsp turmeric and cook for approx. 3 minutes on medium flame.
  • Now add cream and simmer for 2-3 minutes.
  • Add lemon juice and butter and serve hot.
  • Serving suggestions-best served with boiled rice or with any Indian bread

Comments

  1. Nupur says

    Perfect Daal,Even I do it sometimes to add greens in the diet .. thanks for linking to the event 🙂

  8. radha says

    Nice. Different from the other palak dal that I have tried. Next one will be this one!

  18. Sangeetha says

    I saw this recipe on a TV show n noted it long back n totally forgot about it…thanks for the remind, your version sounds simple n delicious..will try it soon!!

  19. Shobha says

    I have never added cream to any dal..will try it out next time..
    Dal looks yummy.

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