Methi Dal Making Tips: Today’s recipe is a very healthy and delicious Indian dish. Today we will prepare a very good recipe with green fenugreek leaves and mixed lentils, which will keep your mouth fresh and healthy. Often small children at home do not eat fenugreek leaves because they do not like its company at all. So this problem of yours will also be solved in today’s recipe.
Today’s recipe will be prepared so tasty that even children will like to eat it with gusto. Many types of properties are found in fenugreek, it contains plenty of iron, protein and many types of minerals in abundance. Fenugreek leaves are easily available in the market in winter and we should also use seasonal vegetables, which increases our immunity.
So let’s prepare fenugreek dal quickly!
Ingredients for making methi dal:
200 grams of fresh fenugreek leaves
One bowl of mixed dal
Half a bowl of finely chopped onion
Half a bowl of finely chopped tomato
One teaspoon of finely chopped ginger
Two to three dried red chillies
Two to three bay leaves
Half a teaspoon of cumin seeds
Half a teaspoon of mustard seeds
One teaspoon of turmeric
One teaspoon of Kashmiri red chilli
Half a teaspoon of garam masala
Half a teaspoon of chaat masala
3 to 4 tablespoons of oil
Two teaspoons of ghee
Salt according to taste
Method of making methi dal:
To make methi dal, first of all we will soak the mixed dal in water for 1 to 2 hours, due to which the taste of the dal doubles. Now first of all wash the fenugreek leaves thoroughly and chop them finely. Now heat 3 to 4 tablespoons of oil in a cooker. As soon as the oil gets hot, add cumin seeds, dried red chillies, bay leaves and mustard seeds to it. When the Tadka crackles, add chopped onions and chopped ginger and garlic.
When the onions are cooked well, add all the ground spices and cook for 1 to 2 minutes. When the aroma starts coming from the spices, add chopped tomatoes and mix well. Also, add mixed lentils and mix well. When the spices and lentils are mixed well, add chopped fenugreek leaves and add two to two and a half glasses of water and let it boil for three to four whistles.