April 25, 2016

Spinach & Mango Dal


Few days back, attended wedding function in my husband's colleague house and got a wonderful chance to learn lots of delicious authentic Telangana style cooking. His family members were so generous to share few recipes and also made me so comfortable to click pictures and videos. Among all the recipes, this delicious dal was on my cards to prepare first. While pressure cooking both the dals along with mango and other ingredients, my home filled with lovely aroma of mango and fresh coriander leaves. The addition of ginger garlic paste at the last stage of cooking enhanced the complete taste of the curry. This yummy dish goes delicious with hot rice and ghee.


Ingredients :

3 Bunches of Spinach leaves, chopped
Handful of Curry leaves
Handful of Coriander leaves
1 Raw Mango, peeled and chopped into pieces
1/2 Cup Toor dal
1/4 Cup Chana dal 
4 Green chillies
1 Tsp Ginger garlic paste
Salt to taste
2 Cups Water 
2 Tsp Oil 
1 Tsp Mustard seeds
1 Tsp Cumin / Jeera seeds
Less than 1/4 Tsp Hing powder 
2 -3 Dry red chillies

Method :

Grind green chillies into fine paste by adding little water and keep aside.

Wash and add both the dals in a pressure cooker along with spinach leaves, curry leaves, coriander leaves, green chilli paste, raw mango pieces and 2 cups of water.

Pressure cook it for 5 whistles and switch off the flame.

Once the pressure gets released, open the cooker lid and mash it using hand masher.

Add ginger garlic paste and required amount of salt to the dal.

Cook it again for couple of minutes.

Meanwhile, heat oil in a small pan and add mustard seeds.

Once it starts spluttering, add cumin seeds followed by hing powder and dry red chillies.

Fry and add it to the spinach - mango dal.

Remove from the flame and serve.



Serving Options :

Serve with hot rice.






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