Indian lentil recipes
16 recipes
Vada/garelu - a south indian lentil doughnut
Other Very Easy 20 min 35 min
Ingredients: 2 cups Urad dal/black gram 2 tablespoons raw Rice 1 tablespoon Chana dal 1 Onion, peeled and fienly chopped 1 tablespoon Jeera/cumin seeds 6-9...
Arisi paruppu sadham( spiced rice and lentils)
Main Dish Very Easy 30 min 10 min
Ingredients: Raw rice-2 cup Toor dal-1/2 cup Moong dal-1/2 cup Onion small chopped-1 Tomato small chopped-1 Turmeric powder-1/4 teaspoon Salt to taste Ghee-1/4...
Thalicha adai/ adai dosa( mixed lentils and rice crispy crepes)
Other Very Easy 10 min 10 min
Ingredients: Idly Rice or Ponni Rice - 2 Cups Bengal gram/ Kadalai Paruppu - 1/2 cup Toordal/ Thoovaram Paruppu - 1/2 cup Urad dal - 3 tablespoons Garlic...
Tuver ni dal dhokli (wheat flat bread strips in lentil soup)
Main Dish Very Easy 15 min 25 min
Ingredients: For Dal: 1 C Tuver daal, (toor daal, yellow split lentils) 2 Tomatoes, Chopped 1 Tbsp groundnuts Some Cashewnut 1 tsp Sesame Seeds 1 tsp Turmeric...
Lentil soup/sabut masoor ki dal
Main Dish Very Easy 25 min 25 min
Ingredients: 1 cup round lentils 1 tea bag 1 tablespoon of Kasoori methi ½ teaspoon baking soda 3 cups water to pressure cook lentils Salt to taste 1...
Urad dal vada/ ulunthu vadai( crispy savory lentil donut)
Appetizer Very Easy 15 min 20 min
Ingredients: Urad dal/ Ulunthu paruppu/ Black gram-1 cup Fine Rava( cream of wheat)-1 teaspoon Whole black pepper-1 teaspoon Green chilly thinly sliced-2 Salt...
Green beans and lentil crumble
Main Dish Very Easy 15 min 25 min
Ingredients: 1 pound fresh green beans, finely sliced 1/4 teaspoon turmeric 1 teaspoon salt The Crumble: 2 cups toor dhal (yellow split lentil) 3 red dry...
Asoka halwa/ ashoka halwa/ the south indian moong ka halwa
Other Very Easy 30 min 20 min
Ingredients: Yellow split lentil - 1 cup Sugar - 2 to 2.5 cups Ghee - 1 cup Whole wheat flour - 0.5 cup All purpose flour - 0.5 cup Milk - 1 tbsp Red food...
Dosa - a south indian crepe with instant tomato chutney
Starter Very Easy 20 min 7 min
Ingredients: 1 cup Urad dal/black lentils 2 cups Rice/chawal 1/2 tbsp Methi seeds Water Salt Oil Dosa
Sambar ( indian dhal curry)
Main Dish Very Easy 10 min 20 min
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cup yellow dhal/lentils 1 radish (300 g - remove skin and cut into chunks) 8 small shallots (remove skin) 6 cloves garlic (remove skin and...
Pappu charu (andhra style dal/lentil medley)
Main Dish Very Easy 15 min 40 min
Ingredients: Tuar dal/kandi pappu – 1 cup Water – 2 cups. Tamarind- a small lemon sized ball Tomatoes – 2 medium sized Turmeric – 1/4 spoon Hing: one pinch...
Tomato dal tadka
Main Dish Very Easy 16 min 44 min
Ingredients: For Dal: 1/2 cup masoor dal ( red lentils ) 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder 1/2 teaspoon oil 2 cups water For Tadka: 2 teaspoon oil 1 teaspoon mustard...
Mixed dal, tandoori roti & punjabi chicken masala
Main Dish Easy 40 min 55 min
Ingredients: 1)Mixed Dal: ½ cup masoor dal ( red lentils ) ½ cup tur dal ( yellowsplit lentls ) ½ cup moong dal ( split moong beans ) 2 medium onions, chopped 4...
Indian inspired carrots and lentil soup
Main Dish Very Easy 10 min 25 min
Ingredients: 1/2 cup red lentils, washed and drained 1 cup sweet carrots 1/2 medium onion, diced 1 clove of garlic, minced 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder 1...
Beans usili( green beans and lentils fry)
Main Dish Very Easy 15 min 40 min
Ingredients: Beans (finely chopped)-250 g Onion small( sliced)-1 Red chilly powder/Paprika powder-1 teaspoon Turmeric powder-1/4 teaspoon Hing/Asafetida-pinch...
Uttaranchali Massor dal (Lentil broth as made in Uttaranchal , India)
Uttaranchali Masoor Dal I was going through the stats of my blog when I realized that one of the readers was interested in knowing how masoor dal is made in Kumaon, Uttaranchal. Thus I thought of blogging the recipe for cooking my humble masoor da
