Ridge gourd lentil dal
About:
This dish is warming, comforting, and nutritious, and I could probably eat it every day. This version is simple and easy (which is common in Indian cooking and adds a tremendous amount of flavor and depth to the dish) here I flavoured the dal just with garlic. Strangely enough, once you add the lentils to the pot, the key is not stirring them until the end; if you leave the lentils alone they’ll develop a wonderful creaminess as they becomes tender and begin to break down.
Health Benefits:
Replacing one or more meals per week with vegetarian options such as beans and lentils can improve your health. Beans and lentils offer protein, vitamins, minerals and fiber with no added fat or cholesterol. Beans and lentils also count toward your daily vegetable servings to support good health.
Serves: 4-5
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 50 minutes to 1hour
Ingredients:
- Masoor dal/red lentil-1/2 cup
- Moong dal/ yellow dal-1/2 cup
- Peel and chopped ridgegourd-1 cup
- Chopped onion-1medium
- Chopped tomatoes-2
- Crushed garlic-3cloves
- Salt- to taste
- Turmeric-1/2tsp
For seasoning:
- Oil-2tsp
- Cumin seeds-1tsp
- Mustard seeds-1tsp
- Dried red chillies-2-3
- For garnishing:
- Chopped Fresh cilantro/coriander-a handful
Procedure:
- Wash 3-4 time yellow moong and masoor dal and soak for 1-2 hours.
- Drain and rinse and set aside.
- In a sauce pan add the washed and soaked dals, onion, garlic, ridge gourd, tomato and cook for 18-20minutes or until the dals and veggies are cooked completely.
- Meanwhile prepare a seasoning – heat oil in a pan add in mustard seeds as it splutters, add cumin seeds, red chillies and pour the seasoning on the dal.
- Garnish with fresh cilantro/coriander
Serve with
Note:
- Any lentils/beans can be used as a variation.
- Spices can be personalised as per the taste.
Posted on January 25, 2016, in Indian and tagged beerekaye dal, chapathi -roti accompaniment, drch dal recipes, drch sides recipes, eerekaye dal, healthy accompaniment., indian dal recipes, Low oil dal recipes, masoor dal recipes, moong dal recipes, protein rich accompaniment, red lentils recipes, ridge gourd dal, Ridge gourd recipes, simple dal, yellow lentils recipes. Bookmark the permalink. 43 Comments.
Looks very delicious Chitra 😀
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Thank you Irene… 🙂
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Something different!
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Thanks Javier for your support
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I love lentils, and I didn’t know that about not stirring. Interesting! This one sounds very tasty with all the spices.
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Thanks a lot Kathryn. ..glad you liked it… 🙂 🙂
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We aim for a few meatless meals each week and I’m always looking for “Meatless Monday” ideas. This looks wonderful… just need to figure out if we have something similar to ridge gourd in my part of the world. 😊
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Hi Jean – Hope you will find something similar to Ridge gourd…Await to hear if you found any..
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What an interesting veggie! It sounds like it’s the basis for a “loofah.” Loofahs are available here in the US as a sort of dried sponge to use in the shower as exfoliator. Maybe I can find the fresh edible version at an Indian market. If not, maybe zucchini could be used?
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Hi Jean – it’s available in Indian stores and here in Uk – in tesco extra sells this… and yes if not available you can off course replace it with Zucchini or any other gourds…Thanks a lot Jean for your interest… good day…:) 🙂
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Looks wonderful Chitra, the color is just beautiful!!
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Thank you Suzanne. ..
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Looks very healthy and delicious dear!
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Thank you Kushi…
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My favorite kind of daal
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My favorite tooo..glad we share same likings…… ☺
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Love this dal with ridge gourd..
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Thank you Sri…
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Looks delicious…we usually make this with just Tur dal…great idea to combine a few more dals:))
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My mum makes it with Toor dal… just as a variation I tried with moong dal… glad you liked it Shy… Thank you…
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Looks so good! Wish I knew where to find ridge gourd. I’d love to try it!
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Here in Uk it’s available in all Indian stores and sometimes in Tesco super market… Thanks a lot for your interest Cheyanne. ..
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Delicious 🙂 Amma makes a similar dal 🙂
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Thank you Ch…
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comfort food 🙂
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Indeed…Thank you Bharani…
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This is one very famous dal in Andhra…loved ur version too..we make either with tur dal or as a curry with channa dal!!
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My mum uses both Toor dal and moong dal…I just do it with moong dal… Thank you Padma…
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So healthy and delicious
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Thank you Sowmia. …
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Love the addition of ridge guard to dal! lovely, Chitra 🙂
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Thank you Freda…
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Lovely recipe Chitra 🙂
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Thank you Monika…
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Hi, Chitra,
I wanted to ask you what “ridge gourd” is. I usually find by googling but there is no solution so far. If we do not have it here in the U.S., is there a substitution? I appreciate any help you can give me on this.
Thanks,
Jackie
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http://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/health-benefits-of-ridge-gourd/
Ridge gourd can be found in Indian stores Jackie and many times even the tesco extra sells this…. If it’s not available near your place you can use any other gourds or even zucchini can be used instead…. hope this helps… if not please let me know… Thanks a lot for your interest dear Jackie…good day…
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Thank you, my friend! I will look for it and if I don’t find it I will use zucchini. 🙂
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Thatz so sweet of you my friend, am so blessed….. just wish you find them….
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I love my beans/lentils and your recipe sounds delicious. Just bought a Paleo cookbook and you can’t have legumes. Don’t think that diet will work for me!
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haa haa…Await to hear more about Paleo cookbook and it’s recipes Auntjuju
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Love daal in the winter months 🙂
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Agree with you. Quite comforting during Winter Kabul
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Hello! i really liked your post. Please share some more
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