Dal palak with moong dal is a delicious, healthy comforting dish with hot steamed rice and a subji. Palak dal is made by grinding Indian spinach with green chillies and cooked in an onion tomato base, minimum spice powders. You will get greenish looking dal that kids would love!
Any day of the year, when you get fresh spinach, you can make this and make a healthy meal for your family.
Check out my Aloo jeera recipe that will go well with this and my easy palak paratha recipe.
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I make Dal palak these days very often. Aj loves it. We tasted this kind of dal palak in which palak is pureed and cooked with dal in GRT grand at Chennai.
Aj loved it very much. So I tried in my own way and got hooked up to this recipe.
The one we had in the restaurant had more of palak than I am using, so more greener.
It's your choice, if you want more greener, add more palak. You can double the quantity of palak for this given recipe.
Now to the recipe instead of my boring stories.
Method
1. Wash the palak and remove the stem. Tear the leaf and take out the thick stem in the middle too if possible to make sure it gets cooked easily.
Fry in ½ teaspoon oil along with green chillies. Pressure cook moong dal upto 3 whistles.
2. Fry the palak until it gets reduced in volume. Cool down and grind with little water.
3. Heat kadai and temper with ghee and jeera. Add finely chopped onions and fry till transparent.
After that, add ginger garlic paste and fry until raw smell goes away. Add chopped tomatoes, salt and fry until tomatoes turn mushy.
4. Then, add the ground palak, sugar and garam masala. Fry for a minute in medium flame. Add cooked, mashed dal.
5. Mix well, add 1 cup water and let it boil for 3-4 minutes or until you get thick consistency.
Top with ghee if desired and serve hot with steamed basmati rice and your choice of subzi. You can have it with roti as well.
The updated video might be slightly varying from the recipe below but tastes the same.
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Dal palak recipe
Ingredients
- ¼ cup Moong dal or u can even use masoor dal
- 1 cup Palak leaves (Indian spinach) tightly packed
- 1 Onion
- 1 Tomato large
- ½ teaspoon Ginger garlic paste
- ¾ teaspoon Garam masala powder
- 5 Green chilli
- ¼ teaspoon Sugar
- Salt
- 1 teaspoon Oil
- 1 tablespoon Ghee
- 1 teaspoon Cumin seeds
Instructions
- Pressure cook moong dal upto 3 whistles with a cup of water
- Wash the palak and remove the stem. Tear the leaf and take out the thick stem in the middle too if possible to make sure it gets cooked easily.
- Saute in ½ teaspoon oil along with green chillies.
- Fry the palak until it gets reduced in volume.
- Cool down and grind with little water.
- Heat kadai and temper with ghee, cumin seeds.
- Add finely chopped onions and stir fry till transparent.
- After that, add ginger garlic paste and cook until raw smell goes away.
- Add chopped tomatoes, salt and saute until tomatoes turn mushy.
- Pour the ground palak, sugar and garam masala.
- Cook for a minute in medium flame.
- Then add cooked, mashed dal.
- Mix well, add 1 cup water and let it boil for 3-4 minutes or until you get thick consistency.
- Switch off the flame.
Video
Notes
- Add a pinch of Kasuri methi while sauteeing tomato if you like the flavor.
- You can also squeeze lemon before you serve the dal. In that case, be sure to add more spiciness (green chilli) to balance the
- Replace ginger garlic paste in this recipe with either finely chopped ginger or garlic. Add it immediately after jeera crackles.
- You can also add red chilli powder instead of green chillies. But the colour will be differing.
mini
This is very different recipe for me i will definitely try yours tomorrow
Divya Kudua
Loving the pictures-the spoon and fork is so pretty!
Archana
Lovely recipe. I wish I can have some dal now.
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Anu
WOW!!! Looks different and yum.
dassana
one of my mom's friend would make dal palak this way... and i would absolutely love it then... remembered the old times 🙂
so plan to make a green version of dal palak soon.
S.Menaga
Nice recipe,wish to have dal palak now...
Nithya Ramamurthy
Nice recipe.. Will try this soon 🙂
Vimitha Anand
Thats one comfort meal... Lovely color
Dino Sarma
Lovely pictures as always. If you want the dish to look a brighter green, just grind the palak into a puree, and then add it to the hot daal. The less you cook the palak, the brighter the colour will be! Please keep the great posts coming. 🙂
RAKS KITCHEN
Thanks for the tip, sure will try that...
Laavanya
I've never pureed the palak when making dhal... great idea and less chopping 🙂
Shanthi
wonderful color...
Hema
Very healthy and delicious..
Sanoli Ghosh
Excellent dal palak. Looks very authentic. Bookmarked it.
Sreevalli E
Dal is irresistible.. Yum
Akila
Wow this looks awesome
Anamika Sharma
this looks great, i just made yday dal palak with chana dal :), will try your version of puree the palak for a greener version, it's too healthy for the kids too!
Kaveri Venkatesh
This palak dal looks great...Loved the idea of pureeing the palak..
jeyashrisuresh
Super tempting dal palak and very nicely presented too. Easy and comforting dal
Sangeetha Nambi
Healthy and tasty one Raji...
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Nagalakshmi V
lovely colour. my proportions are a bit different, more dal i guess 🙂
Chitra
Nice post. will try this for raksha 🙂
Sushma Madhuchandra
beautiful color! loved that fork & spoon.
Priya
Super comforting food, never tried adding ginger garlic paste in palak recipe, sounds flavourful and yummy.
Preeti Jaipal
very nice....
Sathya Sankar
Wonderful dal, looks super yummy!
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tamilsasikitchen
Nice recipe..I make the same way but using toor dal..will sure try it with moongdal..
Veena Theagarajan
love the color.. very nice recipe..
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Shilpa
Hi
Im a regular visitor of your blog.
yesterday I had spinach in the refrigerator and didnt want to try out the same recipes, happened to check your blog and there it was my menu for the day:)
I tried and turned out very good.. and it was very easy to make.My 3 yr old son liked it so much and my husband who is not a fan of spinach liked it too....
So THANK YOU for all the good and easy recipes
Can you please post some quick kid friendly recipes
RAKS KITCHEN
Thank you so much Shilpa for the prompt feedback 🙂 Glad your family loved it! Sure will try to post kid friendly recipes.
Sharmilee! :)
This has become my recent fav....ur version sounds interesting too...nice presentation!
Vardhini
Healthy and tasty dal. Always a fan of dal and palak.
Vardhini
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Premalatha Aravindhan
Healthy and yummy feast,luks too gud...
Pri
I cooked it today.It was wonderful...
Unknown
I tried this recipe yesterday - It came out very well.
Garlic goes well with spinach - for people who love garlic can grind it with spinach it taste wonderful!
your recipes are so easy to make and taste good..continue your great job!!!
suhaina aji
I have made Palak paneer but never tried this before.looks yummy..sure its healthy too...love the clicks.
Suriya Prakash
Wonderful collection,simple and clear steps.
Keep up the good work ! I tried your Ragi dosha ,and then immediately added your blog in my favourites....Thanks a lot .
chan
Hi Raks,
Good day. What a great recipe, i never thought that spinach can be used like this and i tried as per your instructions and it came out awesome which made everyone in my family to look for more. The taste is great. Your awesome recipies makes me check your blog Daily. Keep up the Great work and Thanks once again.
Vanamala Hebbar
yours method is very nice...will try
summoh
you could actually boil the moong dhal with the palak and grind them together.
sumathi
summoh
you could actually boil the moong dhal with the palak and grind them together.
sumathi
Lavanya Sriram
Hi raks, I made this yesterday and it came out all. My husband liked it very much. Thank you.
Ruchika Pandey
Wow........ Awesome it looks so different and yummy... Ruchika
Shikha Vijay
Hi raks, i have tried most of your receipes and all of them are a hit , evryone in my family loves it... keep posting more and more new types of recepies....
Rubaina Anjum
Going to make this tonight. Looks delicious. However, I'm going blanch the spinach instead of frying it so that it's more healthy.
Enri Rodriguez
Great food blog! Found your site while looking for a dal with palak recipe. Easy step-by-step and beautiful pics. I was pleasantly surprised that my dal palak came out soooo good! Next up, I'm trying your Cauliflower and Peas Korma.
Suba Shiva
hi raks.. if u chop spinach finely and prepare the dal.. it ll be even better.. if we grind it to a puree form entire dal looks green color and there is no hint of dal..
Satheesh Kurup
Thank you so much for this recipe. Very easy to prepare and real tasty. Had it for lunch today! 🙂
Kiruthika
Hi Raji,
I tried your dal palak receipe today. It tasted so good with the hot rice.
Shruti M
This is an AMZING recipe. Just ups the dal flavor one notch. Made it with masoor dal and it tastes like a restuarant dal. Thank you !
Dhanalaxshmi
Thanks for this recepie I tried it for lunch and it tasted awesome, I have tried lots of your recepies and it has been a hit most of the times ... Today I made sure I should comment ... Name ... Dhana
Hema
Tried palak dal and soya chunks receipe today
Raks anand
Oh wow, congrats 🙂 Appreciate your interest in cooking 🙂