Dhal is easy to make, it's healthy and so delicious. Furthermore, you can read my post on the benefits of dhal.
Ingredients
1 cup of yellow split peas
water to cover the split peas
salt to taste
3 cloves of garlic chopped and 2 whole cloves
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
1 tsp. curry powder
pepper (red or black pepper)
parsley green onions to garnish
Instructions
1. Place the peas, the two cloves of garlic, curry powder, salt and pepper in a pressure cooker.
2. Add water to cover the peas in the pressure cooker, and cook until you have a smooth liquid.
3. In a pan heat the 2 tbsp. of vegetable oil and add the 3 remaining chopped cloves of garlic; cook until the garlic is golden brown.
4. After the garlic is finish cooking, transfer the oil and garlic right away to the pressure cooker, and add it (make sure to stand back because it can splatter).
5. Garnish with some chopped parsley and green onions.
Note:
I like to use a pressure cooker because it cooks the split peas faster
but if you don't have one you can use a pot. Also, you can soak your peas in some
water the night before in order for them to cook faster.
The parsley and green onions add great flavor also.
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All kinds of nutrients, like vitamins and mineral salts, can be acquired by eating vegetables, and that's why people try to eat them even if they don't like them. Boiling vegetables are the easiest way of cooking them but are we getting most of the nutrients that they contain with this cooking method? No, we're not! Consequently, this method of cooking them causes them to lose lots of nutrients.
Below are 4 tips on how to get the most nutrients from the vegetables that you boil:
- Boil vegetables in the shortest time possible - Lots of nutrients from vegetables are lost because they are cooked for a long time. Therefore, cook them in a much shorter time to gain the most nutrients from them.
- Reuse the water used to boil vegetables - Water-soluble minerals and vitamins leave your veggie and dissolve in the water that they are cooked in, and so you're losing them if you're throwing that water away. An alternative would be to use the water in soups and in whatever else you can.
- Use as little water as possible to cook vegetables in - Because of nutrient loss it's better to cook your veggies in a small amount of water to prevent too much loss of the nutrients.
- Don't over cook one vegetable waiting for another to finish cooking.
With these ways we can try to harvest what nutrients we can from the veggies that we boil.
Related post: How to eat more vegetables
