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Palak Dal

Featured in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser on December 12, 2018.

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Ingredients:

Palak Dal

  • 1 cup split mung beans
  • 3 cups water
  • 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 3 tablespoons vegetable oil or ghee
  • 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
  • 6 cloves garlic finely chopped
  • 1-inch piece fresh ginger finely chopped
  • 3/4 cup roughly chopped spinach leaves
  • Salt to taste
  • Juice of half lemon

Directions:

  1. In a heavy bottom sauce pan on medium heat, combine mung beans, water, turmeric and cook for 25-30 minutes.
  2. Drain mung beans.
  3. In a large sauce pan on medium heat, heat oil or ghee.
  4. Add cumin seeds; when seeds crackle, add garlic and ginger and cook until golden brown.
  5. Add chopped spinach, salt and cooked mung beans.
  6. Season to taste.
  7. Continue to simmer on a low heat for 2 minutes, stirring to make sure it does not stick to the bottom of the pan.
  8. Add lemon juice and turn the heat off.
  9. Serve warm with rice.

Serves 4.

Approximate Nutrient Analysis per serving (not including rice or salt to taste):
280 calories, 11 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 15 mg sodium, 35 g carbohydrate, 9 g fiber, 4 g sugar, 13 g protein

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