Pakistani
Daal Chawal (Daal over Plain Rice)
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Daal Chawal (Daal over Plain Rice) is Pakistani home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Rinse the rice until the water runs clear and soak it 20 minutes. Rinse the lentils separately.
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Simmer the lentils in 3 cups of the water with the turmeric and salt for 18 minutes, then whisk them into a loose puree and hold them on low heat.
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Boil the drained rice in plenty of salted water for 8 minutes until the grains are just done, drain, and leave covered off the heat to steam.
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Heat the oil in a small pan, pop the cumin seeds, then fry the sliced onion and sliced garlic until deep golden, about 6 minutes.
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Add the chopped tomato and red chili powder and cook 3 minutes until the oil separates, then pour the tarka over the daal.
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Spoon the rice into bowls, ladle the daal over the top, and finish each bowl with coriander leaves, a slit green chili and a squeeze of lemon.
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Serve it with
A Pakistani dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Daal Chawal (Daal over Plain Rice), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Daal Chawal (Daal over Plain Rice) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 400 kcal
- Protein
- 13 g
- Carbs
- 69 g
- Fat
- 8 g
- Fiber
- 6 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 460 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Daal Chawal (Daal over Plain Rice) takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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