Ingredients:
- Toor dal- ½ cup
- Black eyed peas- 2 handfuls
- Spinach – 2 cups
- Onion- ¼ th cup
- Green chilly- 3 slit
- Tomato- 2
- Tamarind paste to taste
- Cumin seeds- 1 tsp
- Turmeric- ¼ th tsp
- Mustard seeds- ½ tsp
- Oil- 2 tsps.
- Asafatedia- a generous pinch
- Few curry leaves
- Sugar – a pinch (optional)
Procedure:
Soak the black eyed peas in some water for 30 minutes in a vessel which can be put in a pressure cooker.
Take a vessel which can be placed in a pressure cooker. Add the toor dal, chopped spinach, onion, green chilly, turmeric and chopped tomato and some water.
Add ¼ tsp of salt in the soaked blackeyed peas.
Cook the toor dal mixture and soaked black eyed peas separately in a pressure cooker till soft. Put a plate between these two vessels while cooking in the pressure cooker.
Slightly smash the cooked dal and add the cooked black eyed peas in it.
Do the tempering by heating the oil. When the oil gets hot add the mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves and Asafatedia.
Add the tempering to the cooked dal mixture.
Add the tamarind paste, sugar and salt. Turn on the heat and simmer the dal for another five to ten minutes.
Serve the dal with rice or chapathi.
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Manjula Bharath
wow very very delicious spinach dal , looks super inviting 🙂
Vimitha Anand
Healthy and comforting dal
Yes Cook
Delicious daal. Any and every daal is tasty no matter with what variation it is cooked,
Thanks for sharing.
Arthy Suman
wow i have never included black eyed peas in spinach dal…something new to me….looks gr8
Madhavi K
Do try it Arthhy, it’s a great way of adding extra protein in the dal.
Priya Suresh
Very delicious and seriously a healthy dal.. Never tried adding black eyed peas in spinach dal..loving this addition.
Rafeeda AR
looks really so yum…
Madhavi K
Thanks rafeeda
Sapana Behl
Delicious and filling dal with spinach ! My daughter calls this dal to be Rajma’s sister ..
Madhavi K
That’s so cute Sapana!