Spicy Red Lentils (Masoor Dal)

It's Only Food w/Chef John Politte

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00:00Hey everybody and welcome back to It's Only Food with Chef John Pelley.

00:03Today we are going to be showing you how to make

00:06Masoor Dal or Spicy Red Lentils. Cue the music!

00:10Alright we clicked on this video to have me show you how to make Spicy Red Lentils or

00:33Masoor Dal. So let's get down into the ingredients here and see what we are going to be using.

00:39We got 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. We are going to use an onion. Get about a cup

00:43of chopped onions out of that. 2 1 1 1 cups of finely diced sweet potatoes. A tablespoon

00:49of minced ginger. About a tablespoon of minced garlic. A tablespoon of red pepper flakes.

00:57One cup of chopped tomatoes. Some salt and pepper which is in the picture. Then we are

01:01going to top it off and make it look real nice with some other ingredients. I'm not

01:05going to tell you right now. We will tell you when we show you the pictures.

01:09I've got all the ingredients right here. I'm going to put all the stuff we don't need over

01:12by the wok which we are going to be using. Then I'm going to start dicing up our potatoes

01:17and our onions. I'm going to go ahead and just start with the onion. We are just going

01:22to give it a nice rough cut. Medium nice. Just like that. I'm going to throw up the

01:30bowl and move on to our potato. Same thing with our potato. I'm just going to clip the

01:39ends off here. We are using raw sweet potatoes too. I'm just going to cube these. Probably

01:50about the same size as the onions. Just to make everything similar in the pan. The same

01:55as the diced tomatoes that we are using are about the same size as well. You want about

02:05a cup or one large sweet potato. I like these little minis that I've got at the store. I

02:11found them. This is what I'm going to use for that. Then we will head over to the stove.

02:15For this dish I am going to use my wok. It says to use a large sauce pan for this. I

02:20think it would be kind of groovy to use the wok for this cook. Behind it we see our mise

02:27en place. We've got our red lentils. We've got our tomatoes. We've got our potatoes and

02:31onions. We have our ginger, garlic, our pepper flakes, our oil, and of course our curry powder

02:39right there. I'm going to go ahead and set up this shot here for when we start cooking.

02:45I've got the rice as you can see back there in the rice pot sputtering. That will be quiet

02:50in a bit once it pops up. There's our shot of our wok. Let's start cooking. I'm going

02:57to turn it on. Get our wok hot. We're going to add our oil in there. Now I said one whole

03:12onion in the pictures. You're going to note that this is way too much onion. That's more

03:16than a cup for sure. I'm not going to use all this. Use a smaller onion or whatever

03:21you want to do. You want about a cup of onions that have been diced up. I'm going to go ahead

03:28and add about one cup of those onions. I'll save those for some tacos or something else.

03:33What we're going to do is stir these up really good. Get them coated with that oil. Let them

03:41cook down until they're softened. We've got a little color on these now. They are starting

03:58to get soft. I'm going to go ahead and add our sweet potatoes right in here. We'll just

04:06keep sautéing these up for another five minutes or so. Adobo is basically a thick South Asian

04:12inspired lentil stew. It's usually prepared with ghee or clarified butter. We're using

04:18oil in this instance. There's many variations of this. Many ways to spell it as well. We're

04:27just doing ours with the red lentils. I'm going to go ahead and add our chili flakes

04:32in here now. Stir that up in there. Get our ginger and our garlic. And of course our curry

04:47powder. Stir that all up. I'll tell you the fragrance coming off this is incredible. The

04:55color on there. Look at that. We're going to do some lemongrass and beef in here. Then

05:05I'm going to add the tomatoes. Then you want to throw your lentils in there. We're going

05:25to stir those up. I'm going to turn the heat down just a bit. Stir that up so everything

05:29gets mixed up. Then I'm going to add four cups of water, which I forgot to put in the

05:36ingredients in the video, but I will put them in the description box. Look in the description

05:42box not only for the ingredients, but for the full recipe for this as well. Four cups

05:46of water. Stir it up one more time. We're just going to get this up to a boil and once

06:03it gets to a boil we're going to turn it down just a little bit so it's kind of a fast simmer.

06:07Then you're going to let that cook for about 25 minutes. As you can see we've got the rings

06:12of bubbles going on and it's boiling so I'm going to turn it down just a little bit. Get

06:17that to a slow medium simmer or fast simmer I should say. We're just going to let this

06:24cook for 25 minutes. Those are set. 25 minutes. We'll let that go. Okay we are looking at

06:32two minutes out. I'm going to go ahead and season this up with some salt and pepper.

06:47Taste it. Yeah we can go with a little pepper and salt. Bring out that flavor a little more.

07:02Now at this point you can use a whisk and stir it up really well to amalgamate the lentils

07:16and the potatoes. I don't want to do that because I want the potatoes in there as part

07:21of the dish. I want to be able to see them in there. They are soft. Too much liquid right

07:28now for me. The way I want to plate this. I'm just going to go ahead and let this thicken

07:34up a little bit more for how I want to present it. I'm going to go ahead and do that. Then

07:39I'm going to plate it up. I'm going to take some really groovy photos up for social media.

07:43I'm going to lay those pictures into the timeline with some awesome music. Then we're going

07:49to come back and we're going to taste this. So go ahead and enjoy those pictures and enjoy

07:54the music.

08:25Alright there it is. Pretty nice looking dish. Smells fantastic I can tell you that. I'm

08:42going to go ahead and give this a taste. I'm not going to use a spoon. I've got a piece

08:46of the naan as you saw in the photos. I'm going to just start out with just a plain

08:50old stew that we made. I'm going to try it without the naan because the naan is pretty

09:04garlicky. Smooth creamy texture. Sweet potatoes are fully cooked. It's got a little bit of

09:22heat. A little bit of heat. You can add more heat if you want with any hot sauce. But this

09:29is definitely good. A little bit of the yogurt on there. I'm going to get the rice in there.

09:36A little bit of texture. It's really good combined. And then I just did some spinach

09:46on there for some pretty color. Get all three of them in here. The yogurt, the rice and

09:53the sauce. That's really, really good. I'll be packing this for lunch tomorrow. Like I

10:02said, if you want it a little bit hotter, add a hot sauce. Add a little vindaloo sauce

10:05if you can find that at your grocery store. Serve it with a piece of naan and you've got

10:10yourself a heck of a meal. Take care of yourselves. We'll see you next time. Bye bye.

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