Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, black lentil. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Species of flowering plant with edible seeds in the family Fabaceae. The lentil (Lens culinaris or Lens esculenta) is an edible legume. It is an annual plant known for its lens-shaped seeds.
Black lentil is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Black lentil is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook black lentil using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Black lentil:
- Get 1.5 cup Black lentil
- Get 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Make ready 1/4 tsp asafoetida
- Make ready 3/4 tsp minced garlic
- Get 3/4 tsp minced ginger
- Prepare 1 onion finely chopped
- Take 2 tomatoes
- Take 1 tblsp avacado oil or ghee
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Take 1/2 turmeric
- Make ready 1/2 red chili powder
Start building layers of flavor by simmering dry lentils in stock, or doctor up plain water with a halved onion. Everything we love about lentils, without the mushy texture. Now, lentils that don't get mushy maybe doesn't sound like a life-changing thing either, but I am suddenly. Black lentils are cooked slow and low with herbs and vegetables for a tasty and filling side dish.
Steps to make Black lentil:
- Wash and soak lentil for 30 mins
- Heat oil in instant pot sauté mode or pressure cooker, add cumin, asafoetida and copped onion and sauté till onion is translucent
- Add garlic and ginger paste and sauté for another min
- Add tomatoes, salt to taste, red chili powder to taste and turmeric
- Sauté all for 5 mins.
- Add the soaked lentil and 5 cups of water
- Change the instant pot to pressure cook mode. I have a diff brand so in mine I set it to full pressure for 10 mins. You cAn start with this setting and if lentil is still hard then you will have to pressure cook it for some more time. If you are using traditional pressure cooker then pressure cook it for about 25 mins.
- After the pressure is done you can add water if the lentil is too thick and give a quick boil. If it’s too thin then just boil to reduce.
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