Instant Pot Whole Green Moong Dal|Green Lentils Curry|Hesarukalu Palya is a simple vegan ,high protein and delicious subji or curry that can be served along with rotis ,chapatis or even rice.
This is a North Karnataka style recipe for green moong dal, also known as Hesaruklu Palya [Hesarukalu means moong bean and palya means subji/curry]. This can be kept dry or as a gravy. Moong bean being protein-rich, this hesaru kalu palya is one of the perfect dishes to add more protein to your vegetarian diets.
I have made this recipe by soaking moong beans overnight but If you dont have time to soak lentils,You can still make this dish by setting timer to 15 minutes on the INSTANT POT with (Quick Pressure Release). And for 3/4 cup of dry green lentils add 3 cups of water.
Have this as a green gram lentils soup with a piece of bread or baguette. You can also add veggies like carrot, broccoli ,squash along with lentils before you pressure cook and instead of water use vegetable stock or broth.Stir spinach or kale at the end to make this a healthy vegetable lentil soup.
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How to Make Whole Green Moong Dal|Green Lentils Curry|Hesarukalu Palya Step By Step
1. Wash and soak moong dal overnight(6-7 hours).
2.Press Saute mode on Instant Pot. Add oil and once it’s hot add cumin seeds. Let them crackle.
3.Add ginger-garlic paste, saute till the ginger-garlic turns golden brown.
4.Add onions, green chili and allow to saute for 2-3 minutes until translucent -stir regularly.
5.Then add tomatoes and cook for 1-2 minutes ,till tomato turns soft.
6.Add turmeric powder, red chili powder, coriander powder, garam masala and cook mixture for another 1 minute(avoid burning of spices).
7.Now add soaked moong dal ,water, and salt give a stir.
8.Close the lid on the pot, and turn valve from VENTING to SEALING position.
9.Press CANCEL button on Instant Pot,Set the pot to manual (High Pressure) and set timer to 3 minutes (for firmer moong beans) or 5 minutes(for softer, broken up moong beans).
10.Once the pot beeps, manually do a quick pressure release(QR) (Wait until silver button on lid drops).BE CAREFUL OF THE HOT STEAM
11.Remove lid away from you, add cilantro and lemon juice. Also adjust consistency of the dal at this point.
12.Whole green moong dal is ready and serve hot with any flatbread ,boiled rice, roti, quinoa or eat as a soup
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Instant Pot Whole Green Moong Dal is a vegan Indian dal recipe where Mung/Moong bean dal (lentil) is cooked with few spices!
- measuring cup used 1 cup = 250 ml
- 3/4 cup dry Green gram/dry whole green mung lentil/moong dal
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 large onion chopped
- 2 medium tomato chopped
- 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
- 3 green chillies split in half
- 1 tsp salt adjust to taste
- 2-2.5 cups water
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
- cilantro/coriander leaves for garnish
- juice of ½ lemon
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/2 tsp cayenne or red chili powder (adjust to your preference)
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp garam masala/curry powder
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Wash and soak moong dal overnight(6-7 hours)
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Press saute mode on Instant Pot. Add oil and once it's hot add cumin seeds. Let them crackle.
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Add ginger-garlic paste, saute till the ginger-garlic turns golden brown.
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Add onions, green chili and allow to saute for 2-3 minutes until translucent -stir regularly
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Then add tomatoes and cook for 1-2 minutes ,till tomato turns soft.
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Add turmeric powder, red chili powder, coriander powder, garam masala and cook mixture for another 1 minute(avoid burning of spices)
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Now add soaked moong dal ,water, and salt give a stir.
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Close the lid on the pot, and turn valve from VENTING to SEALING position.
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Press CANCEL button on Instant Pot,Set the pot to manual (High Pressure) and set timer to 3 minutes (for firmer moong beans) or 5 minutes(for softer, broken up moong beans).
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Once the pot beeps, manually do a quick pressure release(QR) (Wait until silver button on lid drops).BE CAREFUL OF THE HOT STEAM
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Remove lid away from you,add cilantro and lemon juice. Also adjust consistency of the dal at this point.
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Whole green moong dal is ready and serve hot with any flatbread ,boiled rice, roti, quinoa or eat as a soup
Recipe Video
1. If you dont have time to soak lentils,You can still make this dish by setting timer to 15 minutes on the INSTANTPOT with (Quick Pressure Release) and for 3/4 cup of dry green lentils add 3 cups of water.
2. If you don't have garam masala, Add half teaspoon each of cumin powder and add half teaspoon of coriander powder.
3. If your dal is watery, you can turn on the saute mode and cook for another 2-3 minute in the end.
4. No onion/no garlic variation: You can take out the onion and can replace garlic with a pinch of asafetida/hing.
5.I have prepared this dish in my electric pressure cooker, Instant Pot DUO60 6 QT
Note:Nutrition values are my best estimates. If you rely on them for your diet, use your preferred nutrition calculator.
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seems a perfect dish, healthy and tasty. cheers!
Thank you ! Hope you tried this recipe.
When you say “3 split green chilies,” what kind of chilies do you mean? What size? Could I use jalapeños, or were you thinking of something hotter?
I have used 3 thai chillies here for the recipe.But you can add jalapenos according to your spice intake level.
QUESTION:
Do you use the water that you soaked the lentils in for the water used in the recipe? I am increasing the recipe to 4 servings. In the original amount recipe (3 servings) it looks like you use 1/4 water to every 1/4 cup of lentils. Is that a good ratio? Thanks
Hi Christine ,in the recipe i have used 3/4 cup of dried mung beans and soaked for atleast 4-5 hours (fyi I dint used soaked water)..and added 2.5 cups of water while pressure cooking.
For 4 servings use 1 cup dry moong beans and 3 cups of water.Even if you add extra water no worries,you can press saute after pressure cooking and dry up a bit to get your consistency.Let me know if you have more questions.
Another Method:
If you dont have time to soak lentils,You can still make this dish by setting timer to 15 minutes on the INSTANTPOT with (Quick Pressure Release) and for 3/4 cup of dry green lentils add 3 cups of water.
Tried it came perfect!
thankyou!