Daal Chawal - A diet that can save the world?

[ghazi52]

I like Chana daal with goshaat and of course urid ( maash ki daal )...

 

[MultaniGuy]

I prefer Urud Daal and chawal.

 

[V. Makarov]

As much as I love meat (minced beef or steak for breakfast) there is one vegetarian meal that I simply cannot resist. I would even pick it over meat.

Boiled moong daal so the lentils are still distinct, not mashed together (sprinkle salt/pepper) eaten with fresh chapati. I used to sit in the kitchen while my Mom made them and I would eat them right away.

Simple, healthy, cheap, and so so delicious!

I never loved to eat lentils (yellow daal), with chapati. Do not often eat it with rice, even. I love to eat Daal Moong as a soup before a meal. Daal moong is a rather cheap lentil, so it is still made in my house often as a side dish. For example, if one day, the menu for lunch is Chicken Pulao, then 30 minutes before having the main meal, I eat 3-4 bowls of Daal as soup, lol.

Pakistani Yellow daal is made with mixing two daals, the Moong, and Masoor daal:

It looks something like this when it is ready. (remember to put in a lot of coriander leaves).

My opinion is, that daal has such a mild, pleasant and delicious taste, that eating it with chapati, or rice, is doing it an injustice. In fact, the British understood this quite early, and invented the daal soup. It is a comfort food for millions of people in UK. The daal soup is much more smooth textured, and more close, in the technical sense, to a soup:

I believe that the traditional daal from Pakistan, which has separate lentils, and is not mushed, is a much better "Soup". I eat it as a soup before meals, around 3-4 days of the week.

 

[WotTen]

I never loved to eat lentils (yellow daal), with chapati. Do not often eat it with rice, even. I love to eat Daal Moong as a soup before a meal. Daal moong is a rather cheap lentil, so it is still made in my house often as a side dish. For example, if one day, the menu for lunch is Chicken Pulao, then 30 minutes before having the main meal, I eat 3-4 bowls of Daal as soup, lol.

Pakistani Yellow daal is made with mixing two daals, the Moong, and Masoor daal:
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It looks something like this when it is ready. (remember to put in a lot of coriander leaves).
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My opinion is, that daal has such a mild, pleasant and delicious taste, that eating it with chapati, or rice, is doing it an injustice. In fact, the British understood this quite early, and invented the daal soup. It is a comfort food for millions of people in UK. The daal soup is much more smooth textured, and more close, in the technical sense, to a soup:
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I believe that the traditional daal from Pakistan, which has separate lentils, and is not mushed, is a much better "Soup". I eat it as a soup before meals, around 3-4 days of the week.

I joke with my Indian friends that daal is in our subcontinental genes. From the richest king to the poorest beggar, we all love daal.