North Indian
Panchmel Dal (Five Lentil Medley)
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Panchmel Dal (Five Lentil Medley) is North Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the protein alongside. 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 all five lentils together and pressure cook them with turmeric, salt, and water until soft, then mash lightly.
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Heat the ghee in a pan and let the cumin seeds and dried red chilies sizzle, then add the garlic and ginger.
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Add the onion and cook until golden, then stir in the tomato, coriander, red chili powder, and garam masala and cook until soft.
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Pour in the cooked dal, add a little hot water to loosen, and simmer for 8 minutes.
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Finish with cilantro and serve.
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Serve it with
A North Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Panchmel Dal (Five Lentil Medley), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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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, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Panchmel Dal (Five Lentil Medley) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Lauki Chana Dal (Bottle Gourd and Lentils) |
| 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
- 340 kcal
- Protein
- 15 g
- Carbs
- 43 g
- Fat
- 12 g
- Fiber
- 8 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 580 mg
- Saturated fat
- 7 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Panchmel Dal (Five Lentil Medley) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. 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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