Recipe of Perfect Red Lentil

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, red lentil. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Red Lentil is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Red Lentil is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook red lentil using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Red Lentil:

1. Get Kokum (optional)
2. Make ready Ginger Garlic paste
3. Take Tamarind paste
4. Get garlic
5. Get Curry leaves
6. Prepare cooking oil
7. Make ready clarified butter
8. Prepare salt
9. Get Tomatoes
10. Take Vegetarian cuisine
11. Make ready Red Lentil
12. Make ready Black eye gram
13. Take onion, chopped
14. Get Red chilly powder
15. Get coriander seeds powder
16. Get cumin seeds powder
17. Get turmeric powder

Instructions to make Red Lentil:

1. Heat the oil in a pressure cooker.
2. Put the finely chopped onions in the hot oil n let it fry till golden brown.
3. Once the onions are golden brown add the ginger garlic paste and stir for a couple of minutes.
4. Add the finely diced tomatoes, add little water if it's sticking to the base. Keep stirring.
5. Add the turmeric, red chilli, coriander and cumin seeds powder, and keep stirring.
6. After stirring for some 5 minutes add the lentils and the gram to the cooker, add water enough to go 2 inches above the Lentil.
7. Let the pressure cooker whistle 3 time's on high flame then reduce to low flame n keep it for 10 minutes on the fire.
8. After the cooker has cooled down a bit and you are able to open the cooker easily, check if the consistency is very thick add water to it. Add the kokum and let it cook on low flame. Add the tamarind paste.
9. In a small pan add the clarified butter once it's hot, add the curry leaves and crushed cloves of garlic. As the garlic becomes golden quickly add this to the cooker n close the lid of the cooker. After 2 minutes open n stir.
10. Serve it hot in a bowl. Garnish it with either coriander leaves or mint leaves.

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