Dal Adas | Persian Lentil Stew
Lentil stew is one of the healthiest dishes ever. If you are vegetarian and you worry about your health and you are careful with your diet, we highly recommend you trying this dish. Not only this is only proper for vegetarians, but also it is very beneficial for everybody, from pregnant women, children growing up, elderlies and everyone you can imagine! This dish is also cheap and this makes it much more lovable. If you are wondering what to make to delight your family and be sure they stay healthy, go for Daal adas. The other dish you can think about is Ashe Tarkhine.
Dal Adas | Persian Lentil Stew
Ingredients
- 2.5 cups red lentils
- 1 large potato (needs to be diced)
- 1 large tomato (needs to be grated)
- ¼ cup tamarind molasses
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 small onion (needs to be diced)
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- Salt, pepper and turmeric, as much as required
Instructions
- Like other beans, lentils should also soak in water. so about 12 hours before you want to cook this dish, leave the red lentils in some water. It's a good idea to change the water at least 3 times.
- After the lentils are soaked, add the lentils, diced potatoes and some fresh water to a pot. Let them cook over a low flame.
- To prepare the sauce for this dish, chop some onions and stir fry them using some oil in a pot (do not cook them completely.
- Add some turmeric to the onions and stir fry and mix the ingredients. After a while , add the garlic and stir fry them until they are cooked .
- Add the tomato paste and the grated tomato. Stir dry and cook them over a low flame. When all the ingredient are cooked, add some salt and red pepper.
- Finally, to give the sauce a sour-sweet taste, add the tamarind molasses. Let it cook for a short while.
- When the lentils and the potatoes are cooked, add the sauce to them and mix them with each other.
Topping and Serving Iranian Lentil Stew
Top the stew nicely with some fresh vegetables and lemon slices. You can separately cook some pieces of diced potatoes just for the topping.
The stew can be served both with and without rice.
If you want to serve it with rice, like other stews, prepare some rice and serve them together.
But without the rice, it can be served like soups. With different types of bread, fresh lemon juice and some oilve oil.
You will enjoy it either way.
Tips for cooking Dal Adas
- In the original recipe chili is the main spice, but you can skip this if you want to.
- Tamarind can be replaced with fresh lemon juice.
- You can use mashed potatoes instead of diced potatoes.
wow I loved dal adas! it was a really delicious dish
this dish is so healthy and beneficial
this was delicious by bread
the spicy dishes are awesome so was this one
wow I really loved it! why was it so delicious? I never tasted such food before
the stew is so delicious and so awesome.
the stew is so juicy and spicy I fell in love with it
to have the stew with torshi is awesome
I never tasted such dish and I really liked it
thanks for the great recipe! dal adas is awesome