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Green mung daal is another simple lentil soup side dish. This one is made with whole green mung beans and tempered with slightly burnt garlic and spices! Vegan Gluten Free Recipe. Jump to Recipe
Another simple lentil soup side dish. This one is whole green mung beans(green gream) tempered with slightly burnt garlic and spices! The slightly burnt garlic goes really well with the whole mung bean! Serve hot with a side of dry vegetable preparation, indian flat bread and pickle!
Green Mung Daal With Burnt Garlic Tadka
Green mung daal is another simple lentil soup side dish. This one is made with whole green mung beans and tempered with slightly burnt garlic and spices! Vegan Gluten Free Recipe.
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup green mung beans, (soaked 2 hours to a day)
- 2 cups water
Tempering:
- 1 teaspoon oil
- 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
- pinch of asofetida
- 1/2 teaspoon coriander powder
- 5 curry leaves
- 5-6 cloves of garlic chopped
- 1 dry red chili pepper
- 1/4 cup onions chopped
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper or to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt or to taste
Instructions
- Rinse the soaked mung beans and pressure cook with 2 cups of water for 2 whistles. Wait for the pressure to go down by itself before opening the pressure cooker.
- For the tempering, heat the oil in a medium pan on medium low heat until hot.
- Add the mustard seeds. Once they start to sputter, add in the asofetida and curry leaves.
- Add in broken dry red chili, garlic, coriander powder and turmeric and mix well.
- Cook on medium low heat until the garlic starts to turn golden brown.
- Add in the onions and cook for another 2 minutes.
- Add the cooked beans to the tempering or the tempering to the beans pan and mix well.
- Add salt and black pepper to taste and cook the beans soup for 3-4 minutes so that the soup can pick up the flavor of the tempering.
- Serve hot with rotis or rice, garnished with fresh cilantro leaves!
Notes
Nutritional value is based on 1 serving
Nutrition
Calories: 284kcal, Carbohydrates: 48g, Protein: 17g, Fat: 3g, Sodium: 600mg, Potassium: 919mg, Fiber: 11g, Sugar: 5g, Vitamin A: 240IU, Vitamin C: 57.1mg, Calcium: 123mg, Iron: 5mg
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Did you make this recipe? Rate and comment below!
If using an Instant Pot instead of Pressure cooker, about how many minutes would you set it for?
15min after using the sautee feature for all ingredients up to and including step 6.
Thank you! I really enjoy combing through and grabbing recipes. Many are ingredients that are in most pantry’s, plus most are easy one pot dishes, low calorie and little if no oil. I have one of your cookbooks and am buying another. Blessings to you and yours
I didn’t burn the garlic because I don’t like burnt garlic, but with everything else this was a very yummy dal!
You can cook it over low heat until lightly brown. that will be a nice toasted flavor and not bitter burn