Spinach dal curry is a wonderful combination of spinach, lentils and garlic.This palak dal tastes great with both roti and rice.Though I have prepared it with tur dal, you can use moong dal or a mix of both moong and tur dal. Being a health freak, I include greens in my diet at least 4 times in a week by adding it to parathas or preparing poriyal or kootu or pulao or khichdi or sandwich with greens.This is one of my favorite comfort food and I love to have it with hot steamed rice and ghee. Today we will learn how to prepare dal palak following this easy recipe with step wise pictures.
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Dal Palak-How to make Dal Palak
Prep Time : 10 mins
Cook Time : 20 mins
Serves: 2-3
Recipe Category: Side Dish
Recipe Cuisine: Punjabi
Author:Padhu Sankar
Serves: 2-3
Recipe Category: Side Dish
Recipe Cuisine: Punjabi
Author:Padhu Sankar
Ingredients needed
Palak/spinach – washed and chopped – 2 1/4 cups
Moong dal or tur dal or a mix of both – 1/4 cup
Turmeric powder -1/4 tsp
Chilli powder – 3/4 tsp
Onion – 2 medium size
Tomato -1
Garlic – 4-5 cloves
Ginger – 1 inch piece
Green chilli -1
Salt as needed
Moong dal or tur dal or a mix of both – 1/4 cup
Turmeric powder -1/4 tsp
Chilli powder – 3/4 tsp
Onion – 2 medium size
Tomato -1
Garlic – 4-5 cloves
Ginger – 1 inch piece
Green chilli -1
Salt as needed
For the seasoning
Oil – 1 1/2 tbsp
Mustard seeds -1 tsp
Cumin seeds -1 tsp
Urad dal – 1/2 tsp
Red chilli -1
Hing -a pinch
Mustard seeds -1 tsp
Cumin seeds -1 tsp
Urad dal – 1/2 tsp
Red chilli -1
Hing -a pinch
Preparation
Pressure cook dal with a pinch of turmeric powder for 3 whistles. Mash it well and keep it aside. Check out my detailed post on How to cook dal? if needed.
Wash, discard the thick stem and chop spinach finely.
Chop onions, tomato, ginger, garlic and chillies finely.
Method
Keep all the ingredients ready including cooked tur dal. Pressure cook spinach for 1 whistle. After the pressure subsides, open and mash it well.
Heat oil in a pan or kadai, add the ingredients mentioned under seasoning in the same order and fry till urad dal turns golden brown.
Add onions, ginger, green chilli and saute till onions become light brown.
Add finely chopped tomatoes, turmeric powder, chilli powder and cook till tomatoes become mushy.
Then add the cooked palak, cooked dal, needed salt, mix well and bring everything to boil. Remove from fire and add a tsp of ghee.
Serve hot with chapati or hot steamed rice topped with a tsp of ghee. With potato curry as a side dish, it tastes heavenly.
Nice recipe.. Nice presentation .. Very healthy
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Very flavourful and delicious.
Healthy and yummy recipe…
Delicious and healthy combination of dal and palak.
Deepa
healthy and delicious recipe….I make this very often in a similar way 🙂
Quick and healthy daal preparation.I loved this and often make this..
I never had it in my Childhood, after marriage tried it once at a Friends home and am a fan since then.
Love the Combo !
delicious dal!!!
healthy recipe ……
Very healthy one…
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Simple and yummy dal. quite healthy too
Healthy dal and my fav too…Used to prepare this once in a week for my kid…
very healthy and delicious dal..
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very healthy and yummy dal
hello…thanks you. tried the same and it did come out well….:).
looks like a great recipe but how do I cook this using frozen spinach?
Now I make this dish every other day….and my son and hubby are such big fans of this dish. But I make it the easy way ….saute the onions first and then add the dal and spinach and pressure cook…one pot…. Thanks for the lovely recipe
What is palak and what is daal and where do you get it?
Palak is spinach leaves and dal is lentils. Dal is regularly eaten with rice and roti (Indian flat bread) in India. There are different types of dal like Tur dal, moong dal, masoor dal, urad dal,channa dal etc. You will get dal online or in all Indian stores.
very delicious!
Just made it and ate it, with rice , delicious, could you place a link to the potato curry ?
Here is the link to South Indian Style Potato curry
Thanks Padhu Sankar…You are a saviour, I was eating same kind of curries for past three weeks and was fed up with the same taste and then searched for cooking dish for single person and got your site I tried your Palak Dal dish and it was great and protein wise also it is good.Thanks for such a wonderful site !!!
Delicious
Yum!
Tried this recipe today with moong dal and had with rice. My taste buds are blessing me. Enjoyed every mouth of it! AWESOME!!!!!!!!
Palak means which green ? Can i get the tamizh name of it Padhu ?
I would have posted the picture of palak in some other palak recipe. Palak is pasalai keerai in Tamil (not the Cylon pasalai) and spinach in English. You can ask for palak in the market.
Super mam
Nice recipe thanks padhu
Dear padhus .. tried this today.. it was heavenly.. u r measurements are perfect .. thank u..
How to pressure cook spinach?
Chop the spinach roughly, add to the pressure cooker with a little water and pressure cook for 1 whistle.
Thank you!
I have been looking for a good Dal palak recipe and made this today. It turned out to be very nice. Thank you.