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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Indian Subcontinent >> Indian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Put the drained green lentils alongwith 2 cups of water in a large pot and bring to a boil. | 2. Lower flame to medium, cover and allow the lentils to continue to cook until tender. | 3. This will take about 30 minutes. | 4. Do not throw out this water in which you have cooked the lentils. | 5. Now, with the back of a large mixing spoon, mash the lentils. | 6. Keep aside. | 7. Heat oil in a large pan on medium flame. | 8. Once it's hot, add mustard seeds and allow to splutter. | 9. Once they start spluttering, add cumin seeds and allow to crackle. | 10. Once they start crackling, add curry leaves and stir-fry for 2 minutes on medium flame. | 11. Then, toss in the chopped ginger,garlic,onions and green chilli. | 12. Mix well and continue to stir-fry until the masala becomes very dry. | 13. Add turmeric powder, corriander powder and red chilli powder. | 14. Mix well and continue to stir-fry for another 3 minutes. | 15. Fold in the chopped tomatoes alongwith 1/4 cup of water. | 16. This water is to be added to cook the tomatoes. | 17. Mix well and cook on medium flame until the tomatoes become really soft and mushy. | 18. Add salt and mix well. | 19. Add the lentil-water mixture to this pot containing the prepared masala mixture. | 20. Mix well. | 21. Stir in 1 1/4 cups of water (so that you obtain the correct consistency of this lentil curry). | 22. Remove from heat. | 23. Serve hot with rotis (Indian flatbreads) or bread or cooked long-grain Basmati white rice. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
cumin seed	1	tablespoon		22.5	2.6544	1.0686	1.3362
mustard seed	1	teaspoon		10.16	0.5618	0.5216	0.7248
oil	3	tablespoons		336.384	0.0	0.1075	38.2003
green chili	1		washed trimmed chopped	-	-	-	-
onion	2		peeled washed chopped	88.0	20.548000000000002	2.42	0.22
ginger	1	inch	peeled washed chopped	-	-	-	-
garlic	5	cloves	peeled washed chopped	22.35	4.959	0.9540000000000001	0.075
tomato	2		peeled washed chopped	56.58	12.546	2.952	0.49200000000000005
coriander powder	1	teaspoon		5.364	0.9898	0.2227	0.3199
turmeric powder	1 1/4	1/4		-	-	-	-
red chili powder	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
curry leaf	4		washed	-	-	-	-
water	1/4	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
water	2	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
salt	1 1/2	1/2		-	-	-	-
salt	3/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
water	1 1/4	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
green lentil	1 1/2	cups	washed drained	-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.