Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, red lentils. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Red lentils is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Red lentils is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
The lentil (Lens culinaris or Lens esculenta) is an edible legume. It is an annual plant known for its lens-shaped seeds. As a food crop, the majority of world production comes from Canada and India.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook red lentils using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Red lentils:
- Make ready 1 overful cup of split red lentils(soak about half hour)
- Take 1 medium -large white onion
- Get Half can of tomato pureed briefly (about 3 tomatoes)
- Make ready 400 ml water
- Take Spices:l level tsp garlic paste
- Take Spices:1 teaspoon salt(another tsp for before cooking them)
- Prepare spices:half teaspoon tumeric powder,1 tspn cumin seed
- Take Spices:1 tspn Red chilli flakes(optional,but gives nice flavor)
- Make ready Quater cup or so, cooking oil(see pictt of oil used in pan)
- Get Garnish:corriander and green pepper /paprika
Dried red lentils are actually orange in color, and are sometimes also labeled as Egyptian lentils. Red lentils look more orange than red after the cook, especially with the addition of turmeric. I use Bob's Red Mill Red Lentils which are grown in the Pacific Northwest. Wikipedia Article About Red Lentil on Wikipedia.
Steps to make Red lentils:
- Soak red lentil in 1 cup warm water,about half hour until water absorbed most of water.discard remaining water over sink
- After discard water add about tspn of salt nd stir.. set aside while you fry onions and spices..fry onions until golden brown not burnt then add spices to cook then in oil briefly.then add lentils and
- Add spices,lentils and tomatoes and water,stir and cover them cook on medium low heat until sift then on low heat til ready(here they wher slightly mushy as how they are preferred when eating esp with flat breads etc,but can also make not mushy by cookin bit less..can try these different texture and use as prefer inshaallah
- Add chopped corriander and chopped green peppers.
- Bismillah and enjoy!
Red lentils are one of the most common types of lentil, and the best known among the red lentils is the Red Chief. It's a lovely salmon pink in its dried form, but it turns golden when cooked. This delicious red lentil dal is high in protein, perfectly spiced and highly flavorful. Who knew a tiny lens-shaped legume could be so versatile? From soups to appetizers, veggie burgers and hearty shepherd's pie, lentils bring a powerful protein punch to your.
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