Lentil curry is one of our favorite side dishes with rice. It works great as gravy. Almost every single day we cook it. It's a plant-based protein so people treat it as a low-cost source of protein too.
The cooking process is very simple. If you use a pressure cooker, it can be done in just 15 minutes.
So let's thee the detailed recipe!
What we need?
- Red lentil
- Garlic
- Tomato
- Five spices
- Green chili
- Dried red chili
- Salt
- Water
- Turmeric powder
- Bay Leaves
- Vegetable oil
How to make it?
Wash the lentil properly and put it in a pressure cooker or pan with a good amount of water. Add turmeric powder, salt, and Bay Leaves.
Wait for two whistles on the cooker or 15 minutes on a pan to take it off/properly cooked.
keep the cooked/boiled lentils aside. Now we are gonna make the gravy.
Put some oil on the pan. Add the tomatoes, chili, five spices, garlic slices and fry it for a minute.
Add the cooked/boiled lentils to the pan and cook it for another minute.
And it's done!
Yes as simple as I said.
It takes only a few ingredients and a few minutes but this dish is full of flavors. We have a tradition to eat rice along with lentil curry and mashed potato, nothing else. This is totally plant-based, vegan, easy to prepare, and full of nutrition.
You can add a small amount of water to make it more gravy so you can enjoy it like soup or with roti; the way you want. There are many other ways to prepare lentils, I will try to share some more soon.
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