Palak - Masoor dal

I found the list of ingredients at Tarla Dalal's website and grew very intrigued. I have fallen in love with masoor dal and wanted to try this.

This is how I understood the recipe. And I sure did like the results.

Ingredients

½ cup masoor dal (split red lentils) 1 cup spinach (palak), chopped 1 teaspoon ginger-green chilli- garlic paste a pinch turmeric powder (haldi) 1 tablespoon tamarind (imli) pulp (I used imli - kajoor chutney) salt to taste

For the tempering

1/2 teaspoon saunf 1 teaspoon cumin seeds (jeera) 3 dry red chillies, broken 6 to 8 curry leaves   1 tsp oil Method

1. Wash the masoor dal well in water. It should run clear. 
2. Heat oil in a cooker, add jeera, saunf, red chillies, curry leaves and fry.
3. Once that is done, add the ginger-green chilli-garlic paste till raw smell goes.
4. Add the dal + palak, turmeric, salt, 2 cups of water. 
5. Cook till 1 in high heat whistle and 2 whistles in low heat.
6. Add water if dal is too thick.  Add the tamarind extract. Simmer for few mins.
7. Goes very well with phulkas. Light and healthy!