to eat daal every night?

[HoraceCope]

to
a: save money
b: be vegan?
c: because I love it

what would you eat every night

I love daal. I often have it for lunch.

Indian here. For a long time I had daal every night. There are thousands of daals though so even if you just keep to Indian recipes you’ll have a new dish every night.

Soup
Vague enough that you can put just about anything in it, warm and comforting, perfect with freshly baked crusty bread

Dhal is also good

"but I don't love the painful brewing sensation in my lower gut"

Vedic cooking uses asefoeteda to combat this, it's a resin that tastes like onion/garlic and you can get it from most supermarkets. It doesn't eliminate it, but it helps.

Always add coconut milk as part of the liquid to soften the lentils. Lots of tumeric for the dahl.

Tarka is garlic, ginger, onions, chilli, tomatoes all fried with lots of vegan ghee. Curry powder, Garam Masala, and cummin.

Fresh corriander does make a difference.

Did try asafoetida (hing) once. Won't do it again - leave that to the experts. There's a clue in the name asafoetida.

Did try asafoetida (hing) once. Won't do it again - leave that to the experts. There's a clue in the name asafoetida.

You've got to really cook it out, otherwise it's like a horse has farted on your tastebuds. But cooked out, along with black salt, it's actually pretty good.

potato salad by the sackful.

I love dhal too, especially my recipe that has loads of coconut cream in it. Had a non-coconut cream one last night and leftovers today for lunch with salad. Yum!

I agree with the coconut comment PP made, it softens it a lot.

I use a mixture of green bullet chillies, dried red Kashmiri chillies and chilli powder for a round warmth.

Also, I make a tarka of mustard oil heated up, red onions sliced finely, curry leaves and a couple of tablespoons of black mustard seeds. Let the red onion caramelize but not burn. Ladel that mustard, curry leaf and onion infused oil over your spicy coconut daal. Then you're in heaven.

I have daal every Friday lunchtime as my Indian friend makes it but I have never tried to make it myself, I just know it won't be as nice!

Roast dinner every night if I could. And at the moment I don't eat meat, so basically all the sides: Roast potatoes, cauliflower cheese (with a non-dairy cheese sauce, I make an amazing mustard based sauce), mashed rutabaga, sweet corn, broccoli and yorkshire pudding.

If I was eating meat then throw some roast lamb in there too.

I bloody love daal though, so agree with you. Daal with a shit load of garlic naan for scooping.

I’ve just read the Guardian link. My recipe - taken from the side of the lentil packet - is as unorthodox as it goes, but super fast:

Fry an onion and some garlic until soft. Add a tablespoon of curry powder, cook for 30 seconds. Add a tin of chopped tomatoes, lentils and cauliflower. Top up with water. Cook for 30 minutes on a low heat.

Any Thai curry, green, red, yellow...with shrimp or tofu.

I was alone over the NY week and I felt lousy so I ordered Thai curry deliveries every night. I had to change the restaurant after day three as the same driver kept turning up with my box of curry and box of rice.

When I felt well enough to go out I went straight to the supermarket and bought 3 Thai curry ready meals and ingredients to make my own from scratch.

DS is back from his holiday and after 4 days of spinach and sweet potato yellow curry and shrimp and veg green curry was nearly crying with relief at chicken, pesto and pasta tonight

Did try asafoetida (hing) once. Won't do it again - leave that to the experts. There's a clue in the name asafoetida.

Showmeshoyu
You've got to really cook it out, otherwise it's like a horse has farted on your tastebuds. Perfect description.

Yup, realised that half an hour too late.

If you like dhal, try mejadra as well - lovely soft lentils with rice and crispy onions.

I add fennel seeds to mine, not authentic, but helps with the rumbling.

Also, lots of ginger, turmeric, coconut cream and tinned tomatoes. No onions, some whole garlic cloves which I then take out. And fresh lime or lemon juice.

Love daal but has to be spinach. MMM.

YANBU - could eat that every day. Well every other day with fish and chips in between. mmm.

tararabumdeay, asafoetida is a key plot device in an Agatha Christie novel.

I'm not tempted.

I put hing (not doing the spelling) in my Bombay Potato.

"people have disagreed with my recipe but its a proper one from a book"

"100 oz red lentils"

100 ounces? One hundred?? Over six pounds of red lentils???

I can see why people have disagreed with your recipe, @HoraceCope.

I would eat mushroom rice and sweet chilli tofu 5 nights a week. I would eat dal and rice 1 night. The final night I would eat a jacket potato with salad and vegan quiche.

No, spinach makes it slimy.

Thank you PerkingFaintly:

“There’s a terrible smell in your cabin, miss. What it is, I’m sure I can’t think, but I doubt if you’ll be able to sleep here. There’s a deck cabin up on deck, I believe. You might move into that – just for the night, anyway.'

The smell really was pretty bad – quite nauseating. I told the stewardess I would think over the question of moving whilst I dressed. I hurried over my toilet, sniffing distastefully as I did so.

What was the smell? Dead rat? No, worse than that – and quite different. Yet I knew it! It was something I had smelt before. Something

-Ah! I had got it. Asafoetida!

Pickled eggs or KFC with gravy. Not at the same time though.

She was a nurse in the war, doncha know! (IIRC)

Asafoetida shall not defeat our heroine!