Black lentil
Black lentil

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, black lentil. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Black lentil is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Black lentil is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

Species of flowering plant with edible seeds in the family Fabaceae. The lentil (Lens culinaris or Lens esculenta) is an edible legume. It is an annual plant known for its lens-shaped seeds.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have black lentil using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Black lentil:
  1. Make ready 1.5 cup Black lentil
  2. Take 1 tsp cumin seeds
  3. Get 1/4 tsp asafoetida
  4. Prepare 3/4 tsp minced garlic
  5. Get 3/4 tsp minced ginger
  6. Make ready 1 onion finely chopped
  7. Take 2 tomatoes
  8. Make ready 1 tblsp avacado oil or ghee
  9. Take to taste Salt
  10. Get 1/2 turmeric
  11. Make ready 1/2 red chili powder

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Instructions to make Black lentil:
  1. Wash and soak lentil for 30 mins
  2. Heat oil in instant pot sauté mode or pressure cooker, add cumin, asafoetida and copped onion and sauté till onion is translucent
  3. Add garlic and ginger paste and sauté for another min
  4. Add tomatoes, salt to taste, red chili powder to taste and turmeric
  5. Sauté all for 5 mins.
  6. Add the soaked lentil and 5 cups of water
  7. Change the instant pot to pressure cook mode. I have a diff brand so in mine I set it to full pressure for 10 mins. You cAn start with this setting and if lentil is still hard then you will have to pressure cook it for some more time. If you are using traditional pressure cooker then pressure cook it for about 25 mins.
  8. After the pressure is done you can add water if the lentil is too thick and give a quick boil. If it’s too thin then just boil to reduce.

Black lentils are cooked slow and low with herbs and vegetables for a tasty and filling side dish. Braised black lentils, also known as beluga lentils, since they resemble the most prized of all caviar. Black lentils, if you haven't bought them before, are wonderful: tiny, pretty and they stay perfectly intact when you cook them, meaning they also scatter well over salads. Braised Black Lentils Recipe - How to Cook Beluga Lentils. I'm told black lentils are really good for you, which is weird, since I've never asked anybody.

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