Packed with nutrition, this Mung Bean and Kale Daal is such a tasty wholesome meal. It can be served in two ways. You could serve it with a good doze of ghee and spice sizzle on top and it would pair beautifully with rice. You could also swirl a little bit of cream and enjoy it as soup with the bread of your choice. I have tried both the versions of Mung Bean and Kale Daal. They both taste equally comforting and so good!
Mung Bean and Kale Daal
Daily Indian menu almost always includes a type of lentils or beans. It’s a ritual that I grew up with but didn’t follow much after I moved out of home and started on my own.
I have never been a big fan of lentils or beans. Until about a few months back, I would make lentil very occasionally, maybe once a week. But of late, I have changed that and started to make it on a more regular basis mainly because of two reasons.
Firstly, we mostly eat vegetarian food and lentils/beans is a great easy way to add protein. Secondly, Arvind can pretty much survive on daal and Avyan has also developed a liking for it.
All the more reasons to go back to the ritual that I grew up with. Life truly comes back full circle!
The Goodness of Mung Beans
Packed with fibre, protein and antioxidants, mung beans are very common to Indian cooking. There are various different ways we use mung beans in our daily diet. From pancakes to sprouts salad to daal and stew. Mung beans cooks fast, doesn’t necessarily need a pressure cooker and that make it my first choice of protein on busy days. The addition of greens to daal not only makes it filling but it also makes it a perfectly balanced meal.
This particular recipe is inspired by Lakshmi’s cookbook Pure Vegetarian. She shared a recipe for Green Mung Dal with Fennel where she uses spinach. I took the same idea and added kale instead. It is a one-pot easy to prepare meal that gets ready in 30 minutes, perfect idea for a weeknight dinner.
Mung Bean And Kale Daal
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angiesrecipes
May 3, 2018 at 10:00 PMI adore mung beans! Your mung bean daal with kale looks fabulous!
2pots2cook
May 4, 2018 at 8:45 AMYou are bringing back the memories of beautiful holidays I spent in India, few years back. You create art doing every post. Thank you.
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May 7, 2018 at 7:32 AMOh my! I want to sit at your table! That soup is calling my name! Delicious!!
Liren | Kitchen Conf
May 8, 2018 at 8:35 AMI grew up eating mung beans – the Filipino way of preparing it is a little different, but I remember loving it, and I’m totally bookmarking to give this a try. I love how your journey with lentils have come full circle! Gorgeous photography, as always!
Priya @currynation
May 8, 2018 at 9:11 AMMoong bean and kale – this is something I should try. and yes, I love your pan as well from which you poured the tadka. 🙂
Kankana Saxena
May 21, 2018 at 10:33 PMThanks priya 🙂 That pan is from kid’s toy collection!