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Mixed vegetable dal recipe, vegetable dal step by step

November 1, 2022 1 Comment

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Mixed vegetable dal or clean-your-fridge-out dal recipe, one of my favourite ways to put together a simple dal for chapatis. This is an incredibly versatile recipe and can be adapted based on what vegetables you have lying around and even what type of dal you feel like on a given day.

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Throwing a bunch of ingredients into a pressure cooker and getting a tasty result in the end is my kind of cooking on most days. As  far as success with that technique goes, this dal would be somewhere on the top of the list. I used one carrot, a few cubes of frozen spinach (which explains the greenish tinge to the colour of the mixed vegetable dal you see in the pictures), onion, tomato, cabbage, and capsicum.

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As far as the type of dal for mixed vegetable dal is concerned, the best options are moong dal or masoor dal. I used masoor dal since it cooks very quickly and I wanted to throw everything into the pressure cooker and get an output where the vegetables weren’t cooked to a mush. Success!

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Mixed vegetable dal recipe

nags
An easy masoor dal recipe with mixed vegetables, also known as clean-out-your-fridge dal, using a bunch of leftover vegetables lying around. Goes perfect with rotis or pulao.
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Prep Time 30 minutes mins
Cook Time 12 minutes mins
Total Time 42 minutes mins
Course Dal
Cuisine Indian
Servings 6 -8

Ingredients
  

  • 5 cups of mixed vegetables of your choice I used spinach, cabbage, carrot, capsicum
  • 1.5 cups masoor dal
  • 1/2 cup onion cubed
  • 1 cup tomatoes cubed
  • 3-4 green chillies or use red chilli powder to taste
  • 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
  • Salt

For Tempering

  • 2 tbsp oil or ghee
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • A pinch of hing asafoetida
  • 1 tsp garam masala powder

Instructions
 

  • Soak the masoor dal for 30 minutes. This speeds up the cooking process so that we can ensure that the vegetables and dal cook at the same time
  • Prepare your vegetables as the dal soaks. Roughly chop everything into small pieces and keep ready
  • When ready, add the masoor dal to the bottom of the pressure cooker and layer the chopped vegetables on top
  • Add turmeric powder and salt
  • Pour in enough water to just submerge the vegetables and dal. The amount will depend on the size of your pressure cooker. I am using a 5 litre cooker here since I cooked a large batch of vegetable dal
  • Pressure cooker on medium heat for 10-12 minutes or two whistles. This is enough to cook the dal and also the vegetables just right
  • When the pressure has released, open and gently stir the dal to ensure the consistency is right. If the dal is too thick, add more water at this time and bring to a boil
  • Heat oil or ghee for tempering and add the cumin seeds
  • When they turn a darker brown, add the hing and fry for another 10 seconds
  • Dunk the tempering into the dal
  • Top up with the garam masala and mix again
  • Serve hot with rotis or phulkas

Step by Step Mixed Vegetable Dal Recipe

Soak the masoor dal for 30 minutes.

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Prepare your vegetables as the dal soaks. Roughly chop everything into small pieces and keep ready

mixed vegetable dal recipe, step by stepPin
When ready, add the masoor dal to the bottom of the pressure cooker

mixed vegetable dal recipe, step by stepPin

and layer the chopped vegetables on top

mixed vegetable dal recipe, step by stepPin
Add turmeric powder and salt

mixed vegetable dal recipe, step by stepPin
Pour in enough water to just submerge the vegetables and dal. The amount will depend on the size of your pressure cooker.

mixed vegetable dal recipe, step by stepPin
Pressure cooker on medium heat for 10-12 minutes or two whistles. This is enough to cook the dal and also the vegetables just right

mixed vegetable dal recipe, step by stepPin
When the pressure has released, open and gently stir the dal to ensure the consistency is right. If the dal is too thick, add more water at this time and bring to a boil

mixed vegetable dal recipe, step by stepPin
Heat oil or ghee for tempering and add the cumin seeds

mixed vegetable dal recipe, step by stepPin
When they turn a darker brown, add the hing and fry for another 10 seconds

mixed vegetable dal recipe, step by stepPin
Dunk the tempering into the dal

mixed vegetable dal recipe, step by stepPin
Top up with the garam masala and mix again

mixed vegetable dal recipe, step by stepPin
Serve hot with rotis or phulkas

Notes:
Since I used spinach, I didn’t add any coriander leaves since I don’t like the clashing flavours. You can top up with some coriander leaves if you prefer
You can also add more spices per your choice, like coriander powder, along with the tadka
I used green chillies in this instance but red chilli powder works just as well

For mixed vegetable dal recipe in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu, Kannada, Telugu, French, Spanish, etc please use the Google translate button in the sidebar.

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  1. anjoo

    September 13, 2016 at 6:49 pm

    one doubt, can we use toor dal also instead of masoor dal

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