Tag: dahl
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One-Pot Spinach Chana Dhal: Healthy and Delicious
I’ve been going through my old recipe folder and unearthing old recipes from my collection of old newspaper clippings, handwritten recipes and photocopies. In the days before online recipes, any home cook worth anything had one of these folders or notebooks stuffed with family favourites and a lot of recipes that were firmly in the…
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Simple Spiced Spinach Dahl with Cumin Seeds
When I first moved to Sydney about 15 years ago, there was a hole in the wall Indian eatery up at my local shops. I’m calling it an an eatery because it wasn’t as grand as a cafe or restaurant, just a un-renovated shop with a few tables and chairs, offering a small selection of…
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Mixed Winter Dhal Recipe with Red and Brown Lentils
Dhal and rice is one my favorite fall back meals, it’s incredibly economical and comforting. This dhal, with its warming spices and mixture of red and brown lentils and kidney beans, is particularly good in the cooler months. I grew up with a fairly conventional ‘meat-and-three-veg’ family and I always would make a face and…
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Indian Style Black Bean Dahl Recipe
Like a lot of vegetarian cooks, my pantry shelves are full to bursting with an enormous range of ingredients and, at this stage in my life, I want to bring it all in and consolidate my pantry staples into some kind of semblance of order and usability. When I read a recipe which includes yet…
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Authentic Trinidadian Dahl and Homemade Hot Sauce Recipes
I was driving to a yoga class the other day when I heard on the radio the Britain had major flood alerts all over the country and I had the idle thought: Gee some floods would be nice. While I’m not really yearning to be flooded out of my home, if I had to pick…
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Madhur Jaffrey’s Filipino Mongo Recipe with Mung Beans and Spinach
Today is Food Revolution Day, a global forum initiated by Jamie Oliver to celebrate the cooking and sharing of food. Food and cooking are some of the most fundamental ways we have of sharing and connecting as humans and it’s vital we pass this knowledge on to our children and the future generations. My contribution…
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Quick and Easy Red Kidney Bean (Rajma) Dahl with Simple Spicing
I make this red kidney bean dahl quite often as a quick midweek meal. I used to always drain and rinse my cans of beans until I started making this recipe. It seemed like a curiously radical thing to do the first time I made it – to throw the beans, liquid and all, into…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 