Recipes

DAL

40min min

Time

40min persons

Servings

Easy

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Ingredients

  • 100gr red lentils
  • 20gr Ghee (clarified butter)*
  • Borges Classic Olive Oil
  • 1 onion, medium
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1 teaspoon of grated ginger
  • Ground chillies
  • 1 spoonful of garam masala
  • 2 ripe tomatoes
  • Borges grated Coconut

Step by step

  1. Step 1

    Put some ghee in a pan and lightly fry the onion with some finely chopped garlic. Add in the lentils, ground chillies, garam masala, chopped tomatoes and salt. Cover with two fingers’ width of water above the level of lentils and simmer over low heat, stirring continuously. Add water if needed, (when the stew runs out of broth) but not in excess. Stir until the lentils are very tender and star forming a purée. Finally, sprinkle some grated coconut over the Dal.

    *To clarify butter, we need to cook it in a double boiler. If we put it directly over the heat, it would burn. When the butter melts, the aqueous whitish part of the butter separates from the fat, which is totally yellow. At this point we can remove the fat taking care not to take away any of the whey (whitish liquid).

  2. In order to give this dish a Mediterranean touch, substitute the ghee for Borges mild olive oil and add some Borges grated coconut. By doing this, we change the butter fats for olive oil, a food with a high content of antioxidant substances and vitamins and we supplement it with the coconut’s vitamins, minerals, trace elements and essential nutrients. In addition, lentils are a food very rich in nutrients, especially in soluble fibre, which help us eliminating cholesterol, fighting constipation, controlling our weight and cardiovascular health.

    Chef: Josep Maria Luque · 8cadires.com

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