{"id":991,"date":"2015-08-20T23:38:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T23:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/?p=991"},"modified":"2015-08-20T23:38:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T23:38:30","slug":"tarka-dhal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/tarka-dhal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarka Dhal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a favourite recipe in our house.\u00a0 It is one of those recipes we always have the ingredients for and it comes together fast and is tasty and filling.\u00a0 I have used fresh, frozen and canned tomatoes in this recipe.\u00a0 Fenugreek seeds may be hard to find in a grocery store but your local Middle Eastern store will have them.\u00a0 Vietnamese coriander is a herb that we grow in a pot on our patio all summer and then bring it in to over winter as a house plant.\u00a0 We find it&#8217;s flavour to be a bit citrus and a bit cilantro.\u00a0 BTW-Fresh gingerroot is best kept in the fridge on a shelf with no covering.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-ingredients\"><h3>Dhal<\/h3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 tbls olive oil<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 small white onion<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 teas yellow mustard seeds<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">2 cloves of garlic, crushed<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">8 fenugreek seeds<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 teas fresh grated gingerroot<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/2 teas salt<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/2 cup red lentils<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 tbls tomato paste<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">2 1\/2 cups water<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">2 tomatoes, chopped<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 tbls fresh lemon juice<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">2 tbls fresh Vietnamese coriander or fresh cilantro<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"shortcode-ingredients\"><h3>Drizzle<\/h3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 tbls olive oil<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/2 teas garam masala<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/2 teas chili powder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"shortcode-directions instructions\"><h3>Directions<\/h3><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Heat the olive oil in a dutch oven or other large pot.\u00a0 Add the onions and cook for 2-3 minutes.\u00a0 Add the mustard seeds and cover the pan until the seeds begin to pop.<\/li>\n<li>Remove the lid and add the garlic, fenugreek, ginger and salt.\u00a0 Stir to combine.<\/li>\n<li>Add the lentils, tomato paste and water.\u00a0 Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer gently for 10 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Add the tomatoes, lemon juice and Vietnamese coriander or fresh cilantro and simmer for another 4-5 minutes.\u00a0 At this point the lentils should be cooked and the liquid should have reduced to a slightly thicker consistency.\u00a0 If not, simmer a couple minutes longer.<\/li>\n<li>Put in soup bowls.<\/li>\n<li>For the drizzle, heat the olive oil in a small pan and add the garam masala and chili powder.\u00a0 Stir to combine and drizzle over the bowls of dhal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a favourite recipe in our house.\u00a0 It is one of those recipes we always have the ingredients for and it comes together fast and is tasty and filling.\u00a0 I have used fresh, frozen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,84,72,82,93],"tags":[164,206,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}