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    » Home » Recipes » Bean and Lentil Recipes » Easiest Red Lentil Dal (Instant Pot)

    Easiest Red Lentil Dal (Instant Pot)

    Posted: Sep 7, 2018 · Updated: Jul 8, 2019 by Jenny McGruther · This site earns income from ads, affiliate links, and sponsorships.

    Spiced with Madras curry, this red lentil soup takes only six minutes in the Instant Pot. Serve it with yogurt, and fresh cilantro.

    Easiest Instant Pot Red Lentil Dal

    Red lentils sit in a gallon-sized glass jar in my cupboard.  Fragile and thin, they cook in the blink of an eye, melting into a delightful puree.  One of our favorite ways to use them is in classic masoor dal.  You can serve it over rice, or with flatbread, but sometimes I enjoy just sipping dal on its own, flavored with yogurt and fresh cilantro.

    The blessing of this red lentil dal is that it comes together in nearly an instant.  And when you're pressured after a long day at the office, or sandwiched between errands, it's nice to toss all the ingredients together in the pressure cooker, and have a nourishing meal that's ready in only a few minutes.

    Making Red Lentil Dal in the Pressure Cooker

    Dal is traditionally prepared by toasting spices, and simmering lentils slowly until they soften and break down.  That slow simmering helps infuse lentils with the rich and robust flavors of spices like coriander, cumin, ginger, fenugreek, fennel, chiles and black pepper. A pressure cooker cuts that time down to just a few minutes, and a swirl of Madras curry sauce, which blends grass-fed ghee with spices, gives this almost instant version all the flavor and richness of a traditional, slowly simmered dal.

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    Easy Instant Pot Red Lentil Dal

    Spiced with Madras curry, this red lentil dal takes only six minutes in the Instant Pot.
    Prep Time5 mins
    Cook Time6 mins
    Total Time11 mins
    Servings: 8 servings
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    Ingredients

    • 1 medium yellow onion
    • 2 cups red lentils
    • 2 teaspoons finely ground real salt
    • 6 cups bone broth
    • 3 tablespoons Madras curry sauce
    • yogurt to serve
    • chopped cilantro to serve

    Instructions

    • Place the onion, red lentils, chicken broth, salt and Madras curry into your pressure cooker. Pressure cook for six minutes, and then allow the pressure to release naturally. 
    • Puree with an immersion blender, and then serve warm with additional curry sauce.
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    Curry in a Hurry

    Not only is this Red Lentil Dal take only a few minutes in the pressure cooker, and a prepared Madras curry sauce makes it even faster.  It's a exquisitely robust simmering sauce made with grass-fed ghee, olive oil, turmeric, ginger and other spices.

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