Dal Makhani
Dal Makhani

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, dal makhani. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Dal Makhani is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Dal Makhani is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

Heat vegetable oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Dal makhani recipe with stovetop and instant pot instructions. Dal makhani is a classic Indian dish made with whole urad dal, rajma, butter and spices.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook dal makhani using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Dal Makhani:
  1. Get 1 cup black lentils
  2. Prepare 1 can tomato sauce
  3. Take 1 sachet dal makhani spice
  4. Get 2 tablespoon tomato paste
  5. Get 1 medium chopped red onion
  6. Take 1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
  7. Take 2 tablespoon canola oil
  8. Prepare 2 tablespoon butter
  9. Take 2 tablespoon dried fenugreek leaves
  10. Prepare 1 tablespoon chopped ginger
  11. Make ready 1/2 cup water
  12. Prepare Half and Half to garnish
  13. Get Cilantro to garnish
  14. Get to taste Salt

The recipe does complete justice to the name and uses plenty of butter which balances out the heat from the spices and makes the final dal rich. The more slow cooked dal makhani is the better it tastes. In most Indian restaurants specializing in authentic North Indian food, Dal Makhani is simmered overnight or for many hours. Basically you can call it slow cooking of the lentils.

Steps to make Dal Makhani:
  1. Wash the lentils and add to instant pot
  2. Add salt, fresh ginger, water (two inches above lentils) and pressure cook for 25 minutes on high
  3. Heat oil in a pan and sauté red onions
  4. Add the ginger garlic paste, tomato paste and tomato sauce
  5. Cook on medium to low flame for a few minutes
  6. Add the cooked lentils along with the water and cook for 20-25 minutes
  7. Add the spice mix and continue to stir to avoid dal from sticking to the pan
  8. Add more water to get to desired consistency
  9. Add butter, fenugreek leaves and cream towards the end and stir.
  10. Garnish with chopped cilantro

This slow cooking makes a world of difference to the consistency of the lentils. Cook the soaked dal and rajma in the same water with salt, red chili powder and half the chopped ginger till dal and rajma are cooked and soft. Peel and chop the onion, ginger and garlic finely. Dal makhani is a typical vegetarian dish originating from Punjab and widespread in India. It is prepared from black lentils, red beans, tomato puree, spices and clarified butter (ghee).

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