Drumstick leaf dal
Moringa leaf cooked into toor dal — the most ordinary way the leaf is actually eaten, and the reason it is grown in the yard.
Method
- 1
Cook the dal with turmeric until soft.
- 2
Sauté onion and tomato, add the stripped moringa leaves and wilt them briefly — long cooking turns them grey and bitter.
- 3
Stir into the dal and simmer a few minutes.
- 4
Temper mustard seeds, cumin, chilli and curry leaves in ghee or oil and pour over.
Before you start
Strip the leaves from the stalks. The stalks are fibrous and unpleasant.
Keeping it
Two days refrigerated.
Where it comes from
Murungai keerai kootu, in one of its many regional forms.
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