First, peel and finely slice the onion, and finely chop the chilli, and add to a large frying pan or sauté pan with the spices and crumbled stock cube. Cook on a gentle heat for 10 minutes, until the onions have softened. Thoroughly rinse the lentils and add to the pan, turn the heat up to medium, and stir through.
I often make lentil dahl but we tend to have it as a side dish along with a sweet potato and spinach curry. Gosh my mouht is watering now, this looks so good. Mich x I love a dahl recipe and this one looks so easy to recreate and I bet it tastes amazing too!
Instant Pot Lentil Dhal. Set the Instant Pot to 'saute' setting and heat the oil. Add the onion and cook, stirring, for about 4 minutes until it gets soft but not browned. Add the garlic, ginger and red chilli and cook for a minute, then turn off the Instant Pot.
Lentil dahl is naturally vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free. It makes a great Indian feast along with naan bread (my easy naan takes just minutes and is soooo good!) turmeric rice, chapattis, roti or poppadoms, vegetable samosas, onion bhajis, or vegetable pakoras. Protein-packed red lentils cook quickly so this dal is ready in under half an hour.