Steps to Prepare Homemade Dhal / Yellow Lentils Curry

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Dhal / Yellow Lentils Curry is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Dhal / Yellow Lentils Curry is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook dhal / yellow lentils curry using 27 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Dhal / Yellow Lentils Curry:

1. Take A. Cooked until tender
2. Prepare chana dhal or yellow lentils
3. Get finely diced potatoes
4. Prepare B. Cooked until tender
5. Take carrot - finely diced
6. Take Medium potato - finely diced
7. Get brown onion - finely diced
8. Get cumin powder
9. Take coriander powder
10. Prepare turmeric powder
11. Prepare chicken seasoning powder
12. Take water
13. Get C. Tempering
14. Make ready cooking oil
15. Make ready Panch Phoran
16. Take curry leaves
17. Take shallot - sliced
18. Prepare dried chillies (opt)
19. Prepare NOTE ON PANCH PHORAN:
20. Prepare . use store bought ready-mixed Panch Phoran or mix a tbsp each of the 5 spices in a bowl. Use a tsp for this recipe
21. Get . Below are the spices used and mixed to make panch phoran (equally measured portions) :
22. Prepare Cumin
23. Take Mustard seeds
24. Make ready Fennel seeds
25. Take Fenugreek seeds
26. Take Nigella seeds
27. Prepare 👉🏻 use salt instead of chicken seasoning powder for a vegetarian dish

Steps to make Dhal / Yellow Lentils Curry:

1. How to prepare #panchporan /#panchphoran : Below is panch phoran or panch phora. It is Usually used to temper Indian dishes.
2. Prepare all ingredients.
3. Soak chana dhal or yellow lentils for few hours. Soaking will help shorten the cooking time. Another way to shorten the cooking time is using pressure cooker but not everyone owns one. Some prepare this with slow cooker. Putting everything, A & B in a slow cooker and once cooked, adding C last to temper.
4. Cooking the dhal curry - In a pot, boil A with enough water and cook until tender. Turn off the heat. Using a blender or emersion blender, roughly blend the mixture. Return to pot. Add everything in B. Again, Cook until everything is tender over medium heat. Taste and adjust seasoning. Simmer until creamy.
5. Note on Cooking the dhal curry - blending A is optional but blending will create a creamy mixture and when B is added, you will have both creamy and soft bites texture in your dhal curry. Skip blending if your cooked dhal and potatoes in A are cooked very softly and start to break.
6. Tempering - In the mean time, Heat cooking oil in a pan. Add panch phoran and the rest of the ingredients in C into hot oil. Mix and stir for 20 seconds or until aromatic. Turn the heat off. Pour the whole thing into the dhal pot in step 3. Stir and mix. Turn the heat off and serve with roti, paratha, dosa or rice.

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