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    Home » Delicious-Sides » Dhal/Dal » Masoor Dal with Mixed Vegetables/Mixed Vegetables Masoor Dal

    Masoor Dal with Mixed Vegetables/Mixed Vegetables Masoor Dal

    Jan 25, 2012 · Modified: Dec 20, 2020 by Priya_Srinivasan ·

    Dal, the ultimate comfort food for every Indian. My kids are happy with steaming hot rice and a pot of dal.  Every family has its own way of making dal, a small change in the seasoning used or the masala added, makes lot of difference.

    I sometimes mix and match dals, use half of masoor dal and moong dal or use toor dal along with this, but the method remains the same. The seasoning and masala changes if i use tuvar dal, will share the recipe here soon.
    I use my trusty pressure cooker for making dal. Dump everything together, whistle!!! Then finally do the tadka. A fool-proof method i follow every-time. 
    But there are times, when i pre-cook dal and refrigerate or have some extra dal stored after making a dish, those times, i use this stove-top method. Since the dal is already cooked, all we have to do is cook the veggies, which takes hardly 10-15 minutes. I always stock, 2 or 3 ziploc of precut mixed veggies in my freezer for lazy days. So, with a bit of planning cooking becomes easy.

    Most of us have a 3 or 4 burner gas stove these days, Cooking  rice in one, dal in the other, in 30 minutes you can serve a scrumptious meal. When i say this, some of my friends, tease me saying “nothing is difficult for me”, but seriously cooking isn’t rocket science, just think in your head, and do with your heart!


    Ingredients
    ¾ Cup Masoor Dal
    1 cup mixed vegetables (i have used 1 potato, ½ a carrot, handful of cauliflower florets, handful of ashgourd)
    1 green Chilli, chopped
    1 tomato,chopped
    1 teaspoon red chili powder
    1 teaspoon coriander powder
    ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
    3 tablespoon freshly grated coconut (optional)
    ½ teaspoon freshly grated ginger
    Salt to taste

    Tempering
    1 tablespoon Oil/ghee
    ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
    ¼ teaspoon cumin seeds
    1 garlic minced (optional)
    hing a pinch
    Curry leaves a few

    Method (Stove-top method)

    • Wash dal and Pressure cook it with 2 cups of water and a pinch of turmeric for 3 whistles.  Let the pressure fall on its own. Remove the dal and set aside until use. Dal can be cooked the night before and refrigerated, to ease cooking the next day morning.
    • While the dal is cooking, prepare the vegetables. In a large saucepan, heat oil, splutter mustard seeds, garlic, hing and curry leaves. Next add cumin. After adding cumin, immediately add tomatoes and green chili. Saute the tomatoes for 2 minutes.
    • Now add all the chopped veggies, saute for a minute. Next add red chili, coriander and turmeric powder. Add ½ cup of water, mix well. Cover and cook for 10-12  minutes for the vegetables to cook.
    • After the said time, remove cover, add salt, fresh coconut and mix. Now add the cooked dal to this. Add another ½ cup of water, mix well. Let this come to a boil and cook for another 8-10 minutes for the flavors to mingle well.
    • Check the consistency of dal, if you feel it is thick, add another ¼ cup of water and boil for 2 minutes. Finally add ginger and  garnish with coriander leaves and remove from heat. 
    • Serve warm along with rice and a generous drizzle of ghee. I paired it along with capsicum zunka for a scrumptious meal.

    Using Pressure cooker

    • Take dal, vegetables, coconut, together in a Pressure Cooker. Add 3 cups of water to it. Add red chili, turmeric and coriander powder and mix well. Pressure cook  for 3-4 whistles. Let the pressure release on its own.
    • once the pressure releases, open the cooker and check the consistency of the dal, if it is too thick, add 1/ 2 cup of water and mix well. If you feel it is too runny, let it simmer for 10-12 minutes.
    • Now for the tadka, Heat oil/ghee in a kadai, Splutter mustard seeds, cumin seeds, add hing and curry leaves.
    • Add garlic, ginger and green chilies, let it sizzle,  pour the sizzling tadka over the dal.
    • Remove from stove, garnish with fresh coriander leaves and serve Hot with Rice or  Idly/Dosa/Chapathi

    Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Nalini's Kitchen

      January 25, 2012 at 2:58 pm

      Healthy and delicious dhal,perfect for roti and rice…

      Reply
    2. Archana

      January 25, 2012 at 3:44 pm

      Healthy dal. Looks delicious too.

      Reply
    3. Priya Suresh

      January 25, 2012 at 4:00 pm

      Wat a comforting thick dal,yummy..

      Reply
    4. Aarthi

      January 25, 2012 at 4:43 pm

      Totally YUMMY

      Aarthi
      http://yummytummy-aarthi.blogspot.com/

      Reply
    5. vidhas

      January 25, 2012 at 5:13 pm

      Yummy and delicious dal with veggies. perfect with papad.

      Reply
    6. Unknown

      January 26, 2012 at 3:22 am

      looks super delicious and healthy!!

      Reply
    7. Unknown

      January 26, 2012 at 5:33 am

      Lovely combo of veggies and dal..

      Reply
    8. Unknown

      January 26, 2012 at 8:02 am

      healthy recipe like to have this with rice and little ghee..

      Reply
    9. divya

      January 26, 2012 at 2:53 pm

      super tempting dish.

      Reply
    10. HemasAdugemane

      January 30, 2012 at 5:09 am

      tempting delicious recipe.

      Reply
    11. Jyoti Babel

      July 26, 2017 at 5:41 pm

      True.. Rice and Dal are ultimate comfort food for us too. Great updated shots

      Reply
    12. vaishali sabnani

      July 27, 2017 at 12:22 am

      I guess this is the favourite combo of most Indians . Most of us follow the same method of cooking Daal in pressure cooker , which is such a blessing . This complete meal is comforting and that ghee … wow ! That click is awesome .

      Reply
    13. Mayuri Patel

      July 27, 2017 at 4:16 am

      Dal and rice is comfort food for most of us. I usually mix dals to make a different kind of dal. I get bored with the same old dal.

      Reply
    14. The Pumpkin Farm

      July 27, 2017 at 5:06 am

      priya – that ghee picture is tempting me to make this dal right away

      Reply
    15. Rafeeda AR

      July 27, 2017 at 7:20 am

      Dal is equal to pressure cooker. I don't think even I know any other way of cooking it! 🙂 I would have loved daal daily but the folks at home would frown – I hate them for that! 😉 Lovely curry with vegetables… that last shot with the pouring of ghee is super!

      Reply
    16. Srividhya

      July 30, 2017 at 4:51 am

      Filling and yummy dal. Love all the clicks.

      Reply
    17. cookingwithsapana

      July 31, 2017 at 11:21 am

      Tasty looking masoor dal with veggies. Your new back drops are beautiful.

      Reply
    18. Chef Mireille

      August 08, 2017 at 3:35 am

      the photos are awesome – perfect comfort food

      Reply
    19. Jayashree

      August 08, 2017 at 5:02 pm

      I noticed this dal in the zunka post and was thinking to myself that it looked like such a comforting meal.

      Reply

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