If you are tired of ordinary black lentil dishes, try making a mountain sweet and sour black lentil version. This dish, prepared using honey, tamarind, spices, and herbs, has an excellent taste. The article presents a simple way to prepare this dish so you can enjoy the mountain flavor at home.
In Indian homes, black lentil dishes are often cooked and eaten. Some prefer dry lentil masala, while others prepare a simple lentil vegetable dish with cumin. However, in the mountains, there is a special lentil dish that is eaten without bread or rice. Although you have probably tried lentil curry, after tasting this recipe, you will want to make it again.
If you want to move away from ordinary lentil substance and try something tastier, be sure to make sweet and sour black lentils at home. Preparing this dish does not require much effort, and the taste is magnificent. To create it, you will need black lentils, honey, tamarind, and spices. Residents of North India often cook this dish, so we will tell you the recipe for sweet and sour black lentils.
First, soak the lentils in water for five to six hours, then rinse and boil them in a multicooker. After boiling, drain the water from the lentils and place them in a bowl. Meanwhile, pour tamarind into half a cup of water and bring it to a boil; then filter the juice and set it aside.
Now heat a saucepan on the stove, fry curry leaves, cumin, flaxseeds, and finely chopped garlic in it. Then add onions and dry spices, fry well, and after that, stir in gram flour (besan) and continue stirring for about five minutes until the raw taste of the gram flour disappears.
After the raw taste of the gram flour is gone, add the water from the boiled lentils. After simmering for some time, stir in honey, tamarind water, red pepper, and mint leaves. After simmering well, add chopped tomatoes and simmer covered for another five minutes. Finally, add chopped spinach leaves and a little water, and then let it cook for another ten minutes.
How to serve
When the vegetable mixture is ready, sprinkle it with finely chopped fresh coriander for garnish. You can eat it hot like this, or, if you wish, add bread and puri to it.