Recipe: Tasty Red Lentil

Red Lentil. Lentils can be eaten soaked, germinated, fried, baked or boiled - the most common preparation method. Most varieties have a distinctive, earthy flavor. This was my first time cooking red lentils and this was the perfect recipe!

Wash the lentils in cold water until the water runs clear. Our Red Lentils are sourced from the Palouse Valley of Washington and Idaho, where the very best lentils in t Get the recipe here: Kung Pao Lentils. Plenty of nutrients make this one a great family appetizer. You can cook Red Lentil using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Red Lentil

1. You need 4 piece of Kokum (optional).
2. It's 1 tsp of Ginger Garlic paste.
3. It's 1 tsp of Tamarind paste.
4. It's 3 clove of garlic.
5. Prepare 5 of Curry leaves.
6. Prepare 2 tbsp of cooking oil.
7. Prepare 1 tbsp of clarified butter.
8. Prepare of salt.
9. You need 2 medium of Tomatoes.
10. It's of Vegetarian cuisine.
11. You need 125 grams of Red Lentil.
12. You need 50 grams of Black eye gram.
13. It's 2 medium of onion, chopped.
14. It's 1 tsp of Red chilly powder.
15. You need 1 tsp of coriander seeds powder.
16. You need 1 tsp of cumin seeds powder.
17. You need 4 pinch of turmeric powder.

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Red Lentil instructions

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..

Stir until lentils are well coated with oil. Raise heat to bring to a boil, then reduce heat until mixture is at a fast simmer. Red lentils look more orange than red after the cook, especially with the addition of turmeric. Red Lentils With colors ranging from gold to orange to actual red, these are the sweetest and nuttiest of the lentils (to our mind, at least!). Lentils are often categorized by their color, which can range from yellow and red to green, brown or black.