DILL LEAVES DAL RECIPE / SABSIGE SOPPU DAL / SHEPU DAL
Dill leaves Dal is easy and simple to make recipe of dill leaves with Moong dal.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Dill leaves / Sabsige Soppu
- 1/2 cup Green gram / split moong dal
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder /Haldi
- 3-4 nos Green Chilli, slit
- 1-2 tbsp Ghee / Oil / Ghee + Oil mix
- 3-4 flakes Garlic
- 1/2 tsp Mustard
- 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds / jeera seeds
- 1/4 tsp Hing /Asafoetida
- 1 no Red Chilli, Broken
- few Curry Leaves
- Salt to taste
- Lemon
Instructions
- Clean, wash and finely chop dill leaves finely.
- Wash and pressure cook Moong dal for 3-4 whistles along with Haldi and adequate water. Mash nicely and keep aside.
- In a pan / Kadai heat ghee / oil / ghee + oil mix. Add crushed/chopped garlic, curry leaves. Saute till garlic is golden.
- Add finely chopped dill leaves, slit green chilli to the Kadai and saute 2-3 mins.
- Add cooked mashed dal to the sauteed dill leaves.
- Add salt, water as required. Mix. Simmer and cook for 6-7 mins so that greens get cooked and dal gets blended.
- Lastly, add lemon juice to cooked dal. Switch off. Prepare a tadka ( tempering ) by spluttering mustard, jeera, curry leaves and hing in ghee.
- Heat ghee in a small pan. When the ghee is hot, splutter mustard & jeera. Later add hing and broken dry red chillies. Switch off and immediately pour the ghee tadka over the cooked dal.
- Enjoy this simple dill leaves dal with hot rice drizzled with ghee on top and some papad … a comforting meal is ready !!
Notes
- Dill has a strong flavour and hence if you don't like to reduce the quantity. Based on your liking you can increase or reduce the quantity.
- One can use either Tuvar Dal or Moong Dal.
- We can make Dill dal without adding garlic too.
- Along with Dill leaves, one can add other types of green too.
- Greens get cooked very quickly so I don't pressure cook it.