How to Make Perfect Red lentils

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, red lentils. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Red lentils is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Red lentils is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

The lentil (Lens culinaris or Lens esculenta) is an edible legume. It is an annual plant known for its lens-shaped seeds. As a food crop, the majority of world production comes from Canada and India. Among other lentils, red lentils have a sweet distinct flavor.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have red lentils using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Red lentils:

1. Get 1 overful cup of split red lentils(soak about half hour)
2. Get 1 medium -large white onion
3. Make ready Half can of tomato pureed briefly (about 3 tomatoes)
4. Make ready 400 ml water
5. Get Spices:l level tsp garlic paste
6. Prepare Spices:1 teaspoon salt(another tsp for before cooking them)
7. Get spices:half teaspoon tumeric powder,1 tspn cumin seed
8. Make ready Spices:1 tspn Red chilli flakes(optional,but gives nice flavor)
9. Make ready Quater cup or so, cooking oil(see pictt of oil used in pan)
10. Make ready Garnish:corriander and green pepper /paprika

This red lentil dal recipe comes by way of my friend Kerissa Barron, who spent several months living and traveling through India. According to Kerissa, every region of India has its own version of the. Wikipedia Article About Red Lentil on Wikipedia. Red lentils are one of the most common types of lentil, and the best known among the red lentils is the Red Chief.

Instructions to make Red lentils:

1. Soak red lentil in 1 cup warm water,about half hour until water absorbed most of water.discard remaining water over sink
2. After discard water add about tspn of salt nd stir.. set aside while you fry onions and spices..fry onions until golden brown not burnt then add spices to cook then in oil briefly.then add lentils and
3. Add spices,lentils and tomatoes and water,stir and cover them cook on medium low heat until sift then on low heat til ready(here they wher slightly mushy as how they are preferred when eating esp with flat breads etc,but can also make not mushy by cookin bit less..can try these different texture and use as prefer inshaallah
4. Add chopped corriander and chopped green peppers.
5. Bismillah and enjoy!

Wikipedia Article About Red Lentil on Wikipedia. Red lentils are one of the most common types of lentil, and the best known among the red lentils is the Red Chief. It's a lovely salmon pink in its dried form, but it turns golden when cooked. Red lentils named for their beautiful orange-pink color. Of any of the lentil varieties, the texture of red lentils breaks down the quickest.

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