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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Taste Tibet: Family recipes from the Himalayas

By Julie Kleeman and Yeshi Jampa

Published 2022

  • About

Some dals are hugely labour intensive and take an age to make. This one is a Taste Tibet crowd favourite, and it’s incredibly easy to reproduce at home. In India, where Yeshi learned to cook this dish, everybody has their favourite dal, and mung dal is his. It is light, cooks fast and is easy to digest. It also has many health benefits. According to Ayurvedic medicine, it has a calming and grounding effect on bo