Navratan daal or 9 beans soup| A lighter version| Daal recipes
You can buy Navratan daal at any Indian grocery store or Indian section of your local supermarket or you can make your own lentil mixture.
Watch the youtube version of this recipe here
Indredients are very basic:
Navratan daal 1 cup soaked overnight and pressure cooked for 5-8 whistles
Ginger chopped or julienne half tsp
Garlic chopped half tsp
Green chillies chopped 1-2 pcs
Tomatoes paste 1 cup (I made a smooth paste of 2 roma tomatoes in my mixer grinder)
For seasoning,
Salt and pepper as per taste
Cumin 1 tsp.
Procedure:
1.In a pan, heat up 1 tsp vegetable oil.
2. Put in chopped ginger,garlic and green chillies and cook them for 1 minute.
3.Then, pour in the tomatoes paste and season with salt, pepper and cumin and cook for 5-8 minutes or until the mixture is cooked and reduced to half.
4. Mix the cooked lentils and the spicy mixture and simmer the whole thing for 5-10 minutes to adjust consistency.
Thats it, it is that basic and simple and delicious. Enjoy with bread or roti.
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