Moringa Masoor Dal Recipe - Drumstick Leaves Dal

Name: Moringa Masoor Dal Recipe - Drumstick Leaves Dal
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup Red Lentils (1 cup Pink Masoor Dal (Split)); 200 g Drumstick Leaves (200 grams Drumstick Leaves (Moringa/Murungai Keerai) cleaned chopped); ¼ tsp Asafoetida (1/4 teaspoon Asafoetida (hing)); 1 tsp Cumin Seeds (1 teaspoon Cumin seeds (Jeera)); 1 piece Ginger (1 inch Ginger finely chopped); 1 piece Red Chili (1 Dry Red Chilli); 1 piece Tomato (1 Tomato chopped); 1 piece Green Chili (1 Green Chilli slit); 2 tsp Ground coriander (2 teaspoons Coriander Powder (Dhania)); ½ tsp Ground Turmeric (1/2 teaspoon Turmeric powder (Haldi)); ½ tsp Red Chili Powder (1/2 teaspoon Red Chilli powder); 0 pieces Table Salt (Salt to taste); 1 tbsp Clarified Butter (1 tablespoon Ghee); 1 piece Lemon Juice (1 Lemon juice extracted)

Moringa Masoor Dal Recipe - Drumstick Leaves Dal - Dal Recipes (Indian)

40 minIndian

Servings4

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Steps

1To prepare the Methi Masoor Dal Recipe, first wash and soak the masoor dal in 3 cups of water for at least 30 minutes. While the dal is soaked clean, wash and pat dry the drumstick leaves.
2Next, finely chop the drumstick leaves. Heat a teaspoon of oil in a wok or a kadai and add the chopped drumstick leaves into the wok. Sprinkle some salt, cover the pan and cook the Moringa leaves until soft and tender.
3It takes about 2 to 3 minutes and not more than that. Once done, turn off the heat and keep the cooked moringa leaves aside.
4In the next step, cook the masoor dal with the spices. Heat ghee in a pressure cooker over medium heat. Add asafoetida and cumin seeds and allow it to crackle.
5Add the chopped tomato, ginger, green chilli along with coriander powder, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and saute for a minute or so over medium heat.
6Add soaked masoor dal along with the soaked water to the onion tomato mixture. Close the lid of the pressure cooker and put the weight on.
7Cook masoor dal for 3 whistles. After a couple of whistles, turn the heat to low and simmer the dal for about 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, turn off the heat. Allow the pressure to release naturally from the pressure cooker.
8Once the pressure has released, open the cooker and stir in the sautéed moringa leaves, squeeze juice from one lemon and serve.
9Serve the Moringa Masoor Dal Recipe along with Steamed Rice, Kaddu Simla Mirch Sabzi, Phulka to make it a wholesome Indian diabetic friendly dinner.