Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, black lentil. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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 popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Black lentil is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook black lentil using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Black lentil:
- Make ready 1.5 cup Black lentil
- Prepare 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Prepare 1/4 tsp asafoetida
- Prepare 3/4 tsp minced garlic
- Get 3/4 tsp minced ginger
- Take 1 onion finely chopped
- Take 2 tomatoes
- Prepare 1 tblsp avacado oil or ghee
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Take 1/2 turmeric
- Get 1/2 red chili powder
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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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