Wash the palak and chop them finely. Chop the onion and the ginger finely. Slit the green chilies. Cook the toor dal with garlic pods, in pressure cooker till 4-5 whistles. Mash it nicely and keep aside.
In a pan oil and ghee. Add mustard seeds and cumin seeds. When they crackle add the ginger, onion and green chilli.
Cook till the onions turn pink and translucent. Add the chopped palak and add sugar and salt. Cook in a medium flame till the spinach shrinks. This will take 4-5 minutes
Add the cooked toor dal and mix well. If it is thick add water to reach a right kootu consitency.
Bring this to a nice boil. Switch off the flame and squeeze the lemon juice.
Serve hot with rice | roti.
Palak | spinach 2 cups Onion 1 Garlic 3-4 cloves Ginger 1/2 tsp (chopped) Green chili 2 Toor dal 3/4 cup (cooked) Sugar 1/2 tsp Salt as needed Oil + ghee 2 tsp each. Cumin seeds 1/4 tsp Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp Lemon juice 1 tsp
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