TOMATO PALAK DAL

 

Ingredients:

  1 cup toor dal/chana dal
  1 pinch turmeric
  1 onion cut into long pieces
  1/4 tbsp jeera
  1/4 tbsp mustard seeds
  1 tbsp oil(olive oil preferred)
  5 cloves of garlic
2-3 dry red chillies
  1 pinch hing(optional)
  1 bunch of spinach or palak or thota koora
  1 and half large tomatoes
  4 small green chillies
  1 spring curry leaves and coriander leaves
  Salt to taste
  1/2 tbsp of sugar

Procedure:

Boil dal and keep aside.
Heat oil and add red chillies, mustard,cumin seeds, add sliced garlic and cut onions.Add salt.Saute for 2 mints.Add turmeric,hing,curry leaves ,chopped chilli and saute for another 3 min.See that the onions are transperent.Add cut tomato pieces and cook till they are half cooked.Add spinach ,butter and cook for 2 mint.Add daal ( dal which has been cooked well) ,sugar to the above.Here you have to be carefull when cooking spinach as it cooks with in 2-3 mints. So dont close the lid while cooking spinach.Check the salt and if required adjust salt and stop it when the dal is having smooth texture. Its really yummy..You would love to just eat it without mixing.Best eaten with rice,rotis or chapatis

Courtesy: Akkisetti Shyam