A true comfort food, palak dal makes for the best accompaniment with hot rice and subzi on a weeknight. The apartment we live in right now is very convenient to buy basic groceries and vegetables. On every Sunday, a van full of the freshest vegetables from the farmer’s on the outskirts of Hyderabad come to the road below our place and people flock to it to buy their week’s worth of vegetables. They are cheaper than the stores too! I rush down each time I see the van and although I buy 1/10th the amount of vegetables others buy, the vegetable vendors treat me well 😀
I bought a bunch of palak yesterday and have been wondering what to make with it. I considered palak paneer, but I didn’t have any paneer in hand and was too lazy to buy paneer or make my own. I always have a stock of dal (of course) and decided to take the easy route and make some palak dal instead. No regrets!
Palak Dal Recipe
Ingredients for Palak Dal:
Serves 2
Toor dal/Yellow lentil – 1 cup
Fresh green spinach, chopped – 1 cup
Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
Garlic – 4 cloves
Red chillies – 4
Curry leaves – one strand
Oil – 2 tbsp
Salt – to taste
How to make Palak Dal:
1. Pressure cook the dal and spinach with some turmeric for 2-3 whistles.
2. Heat 2 tbsp oil in a kadai, crackle some mustard seeds, add the crushed garlic and red chillies and fry for a minute.
3. Add the cooked dal-spinach and mix well.
Serve hot with rice or rots. Palak dal also goes well with jeera rice or other mildly spiced rice dishes.
I love dal with any kind of greens.
With spinach it is also delicious
we make a moong dal version of this with spring onions and spinach.
yours looks yummy.
Palak Dal -yum yum yum …. 😛 .
its my all time favorite.
A perfect entry for con=mfort foods.
stay tuned…
-Pooja
I love dal of any kind…hey Your pictures seem to be getting lovely post-by-post..care to share the secret????? I meant the food picture and not yours!! 😛
Very simple dish!
photo valare nannayittundu Nags!
comfort food at its best… dal 🙂
dal and rasams are the ultimate comfort food for me…and addition of palak or methi is what i do whenever i feel the need to increasing my intake of greens.
Nags, I love palak in my dal. It truly is comforting. This sounds like a perfect comforting dish at anytime. Lovely!
Thanks for joining the MM!
A great greens recipe, Nags! So very healthy. Thanks for participating in My Legume Love Affair!
Dal palak is very easy to make and protien rich too …!You have cooked the dal and palak perfectly without changing the colour!