Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, black lentil. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Black lentils are less well known than their brown, green, and red counterparts. But their distinctive taste and texture make them ideal for meal prep, the slow cooker, and more — especially if you're not. Black lentils are deliciously rich and earthy, and they can take on a wide range of flavors.

Black lentil is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Black lentil is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook black lentil using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Black lentil:

1. Take 1.5 cup Black lentil
2. Make ready 1 tsp cumin seeds
3. Prepare 1/4 tsp asafoetida
4. Prepare 3/4 tsp minced garlic
5. Prepare 3/4 tsp minced ginger
6. Take 1 onion finely chopped
7. Prepare 2 tomatoes
8. Make ready 1 tblsp avacado oil or ghee
9. Take to taste Salt
10. Take 1/2 turmeric
11. Take 1/2 red chili powder

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Steps to make Black lentil:

1. Wash and soak lentil for 30 mins
2. Heat oil in instant pot sauté mode or pressure cooker, add cumin, asafoetida and copped onion and sauté till onion is translucent
3. Add garlic and ginger paste and sauté for another min
4. Add tomatoes, salt to taste, red chili powder to taste and turmeric
5. Sauté all for 5 mins.
6. Add the soaked lentil and 5 cups of water
7. Change the instant pot to pressure cook mode. I have a diff brand so in mine I set it to full pressure for 10 mins. You cAn start with this setting and if lentil is still hard then you will have to pressure cook it for some more time. If you are using traditional pressure cooker then pressure cook it for about 25 mins.
8. After the pressure is done you can add water if the lentil is too thick and give a quick boil. If it’s too thin then just boil to reduce.

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