Palak Dal

Name: Palak Dal
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: ½ medium white onion, finely diced; 225 g yellow moong/mung lentils; ½ tsp ground turmeric; 225 g fresh spinach leaves, washed and finely sliced; 900 ml cold water; 1 small dried red chilli OR 1 fresh green chilli, slit lengthways (optional); 1 tsp cumin seeds; 1 tbsp vegetable or rapeseed oil; 2 large tomatoes, finely diced; 1 heaped tsp finely grated fresh ginger or ginger paste; 1 heaped tsp finely grated garlic or garlic paste; 1 tsp salt, or to taste; ¼ tsp asafoetida powder (optional); ½ lemon, juiced; ½ tsp Kashmiri chilli powder

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
40 min

Appears in

Chilli & Mint

By Torie True

Published 2021

About

Palak dal is a delicious, healthy spinach dal that can be made with a variety of different lentils. While I tend to make mine with yellow moong, also known as yellow mung, you can also make it with toor or red split lentils, known as masoor dal. It is a highly nutritious vegan meal thanks to the combination of lentils and spinach, which also give the dal great contrasting colours of bright green and turmeric yellow.