Dal palak recipe - spinach with arhar dal

Ingredients

• 1 bunch Spinach
• 1 cup Arhar Dal 2 broken dry red chillies or 2 green chillies
• 1 onions finely chopped
• 2 chopped Tomatoes
• 1" piece chopped or crushed ginger
• 3 flakes chopped garlic
• 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
• 1/2 teaspoon red chilly powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin seeds or 1/2 tsp whole cumin seeds1/2 tsp coriander powder
• salt
• 1 tablespoon oil or ghee

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Preparation

• Wash and soak dal in water for 30 minutes or 45 minutes. Cook the dal in a pressure cooker till 3/4 cooked.
• In the meantime, clean and chop the spinach leaves.
• Heat 1 tbsp oil or ghee and fry the cumin seeds, chopped onion, ginger and garlic till soft in a pan.
• Add the tomatoes and the rest of the masala powders. Fry for 1-2 minutes.
• Add the boiled dal, chopped spinach and little water. Cook over a low fire till the dal and the spinach leaves becomes soft.
• You can squeeze lime juice on the dal just before serving. Lime juice gives a nice tang to this spicy dal recipe.