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Mom’s Simple Moong Dal Recipe with Garlic Chili Tadka. Vegan Glutenfree

Mom’s Simple Moong Dal is spiced only with green chilies and garlic and makes for a light weeknight soup. Vegan…

  • Ready 1 hour
  • Serves 2
  • Prep 1 hour
  • Cook 30 minutes
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Mom’s Simple Moong Dal Recipe with Garlic Chili Tadka. Vegan Glutenfree

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Tadka/Tempering of garlic, chili, mustard seeds

Mom's Simple Moong Dal Recipe is spiced with green chilies and garlic and makes for a light weeknight Dahl soup | VeganRicha.com #vegan #glutenfree #Indian

Pour sizzling tadka into cooked dal. Mix lightly and serve.

Mom's Simple Moong Dal Recipe is spiced with green chilies and garlic and makes for a light weeknight Dahl soup | VeganRicha.com #vegan #glutenfree #Indian

Mung Dal Tadka

Recipe

Mom's Simple Moong Dal Recipe with Garlic Chili Tadka.

Mom's Simple Moong Dal is spiced only with green chilies and garlic and makes for a light weeknight soup. Vegan Dal Dahl Daal Recipe with yellow Lentils. Serves 2 to 3

  • Serves 2
  • Prep 1 hour
  • Cook 30 minutes
  • Total 1 hour

Ingredients

  • 1 cup dry Moong dal, (Mung Dal / petite yellow lentils (split and skinned mung bean))
  • 3 cups water (3.5 cups for thinner consistency)
  • 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt or to taste

Tadka

  • 2-3 teaspoons oil
  • 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
  • 3-4 cloves of garlic (finely chopped)
  • 1 green chili (finely chopped)
  • 1/8 tsp asafetida (hing (optional))

Instructions

  1. 1

    Wash and soak the Mung Dal for an hour.

  2. 2

    In a deep pan, add the drained dal and 3 cups water, salt and turmeric. Cover and cook on low-medium heat until dal mashes easily. 20-25 minutes.

  3. 3

    Or pressure cook on medium for 1 whistle (6 minutes at high pressure). Let the pressure release on its own. The dal in the pictures is pressure cooked hence well mashed.

  4. 4

    Once the beans are cooked, In a small pan, add the oil and heat on medium-high heat.

  5. 5

    Add mustard seeds and let them start to sputter. Reduce heat to low medium.

  6. 6

    Add the garlic, chili and asafetida-hing. (If you have an electric stove the temperature won’t immediately come down, and garlic can burn, so wait for a minute or take pan off the stove to reduce the heat of the pan, then add garlic and chili)

  7. 7

    Cook until the garlic and chili have brown edges.

  8. 8

    Drop this tadka into the cooked dal, mix just lightly so a good portion of the tempering stays on top of the dal. and serve hot.

Notes

Nutritional values based on one serving

Nutrition

  • Calories417 kcal
  • Carbohydrates68 g
  • Protein25 g
  • Fat5 g
  • Sodium691 mg
  • Potassium1307 mg
  • Fiber17 g
  • Sugar7 g
  • Vitamin A120 IU
  • Vitamin C9.1 mg
  • Calcium156 mg
  • Iron7.3 mg