How to Make Ultimate Red Lentil

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, red lentil. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Red Lentil is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Red Lentil is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

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

The ingredients needed to make Red Lentil:

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