Amaranth Daal – Healthy Delicious Yellow lentils cooked with red amaranth leaves
Amaranth daal – Red Amaranth is very healthy and contains twice calcium than spinach yet less popular than spinach or any other green.It taste mild and nutty,and is rich in Iron,Magnesium,fiber ,calcium,protein.
I saw these leaves only after coming to Dubai as they are not available in my home town,since then I have never tried these due to its dark red color,but few days back I brought a bunch and thought of trying to mix it with moong daal like I always make with spinach.Loved the beautiful color of the daal as if cooked with lots of tomatoes and taste good too.
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Moong Daal with Amaranth Leaves
Ingredients
- 1 cup tuvar dal /moong daal
- 1 bunch Red amaranth leaves chopped
- 1 Tomato chopped
- 2 Green chilies chopped
- 1.5 tbsp Ginger chopped
- 2 tsp Lemon Juice / Nimbu Ka Ras
- 1/2 tsp Sugar / Chini
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder / Haldi Powder
- 1 tsp Red Chili Powder/ Laal Mirch
- To Taste Salt / Namak
Tadka/ Tempering
- 2 tsp Pure Ghee
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
- 1/2 tsp Asafoetida / Hing powder
- 2 dried whole red chilies
Instructions
- Wash and soak daal for approx.15 minutes.
- Add soaked daal, amaranth leaves,tomato,green chiles with little water and a tsp of oil in the pressure cooker and cook for 2 whistles or till done.
- When cool down completly ,open the pressure cooker and gently mash the daal.
- Add water to adjust the consistency and mix well.
- Add ginger,turmeric,chili powder,sugar and salt and boil on medium heat for 10 minutes.
- Heat ghee in a small pan and add cumin seeds.
- When seed start crackling add whole red chilies and asafoetida.
- Pour the tempering in the boiling daal.
- Simmer for a minute and then remove from the flame.
- Add lemon juice and serve hot with a spoon of melted ghee on top.
- Serving suggestions-best served with steamed rice and chapati.
Reshma says
Hi…
was looking out for this type of recipe. What to use as a replacement for tomato. Can we use tamarind pulp.
Anjana Chaturvedi says
yes you can use tamarind pulp or lemon juice
Gayathri Ramanan says
healthy dal..looks yummy
Chitz says
Healthy comfort food 🙂
Sapana Behl says
Wow ! Never used these leaves ! Must be great !!
Rani's gourmet says
healthy and delicious…beautiful clicks:)
Kalpana Sareesh says
wonderful dhal with greens!!