Moong Dal Soup | Healthy Moong Dal Soup Recipe
 
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Moong dal soup is a super healthy dish for all age groups. You can offer this soup from babies to old-aged people.
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Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 2- 4
Ingredients
  • Yellow moong dal - ¼ cup
  • Water - 2-3 cup
  • Pumpkin - ¼ cup, chopped
  • Bottle gourd - ¼ cup, chopped
  • Salt - as per taste
  • Black pepper powder - ¼ tsp, as per taste
  • Turmeric powder - a pinch, optional
  • Lemon juice - ½ lemon, as per taste
  • Ghee - 2 tsp
  • Cumin seeds - ¼ tsp
  • Hing - a pinch optional
Instructions ( 1 cup = 250 ml, 1 tbsp = 15 ml, 1 tsp = 5 ml)
  1. Wash the moong dal properly. Soak with 2 cups of water for 30 min or more.
  2. After 30 min, add soaked dal with water in a pressure cooker.
  3. Add pumpkin or bottle gourd or both.
  4. Add salt and pepper.
  5. Add more water if required.
  6. Let it come to a boil.
  7. Close the pressure cooker and cook on slow flame for 10 min.
  8. Once pressure is released, open the cooker.
  9. Mash the dal and vegetables with a potato masher.
  10. Add more water and adjust the consistency.
  11. If required, bring one boil.
  12. In a tadka pan, add ghee.
  13. Add cumin seeds.
  14. When they start to splutter, add a pinch of hing.
  15. Pour the tadka on prepared soup.
  16. Serve hot soup and enjoy!
Notes
You can add one or more of your choice of vegetables while boiling - carrot, pumpkin, bottle gourd, beetroot, sweet potato, ash gourd, spinach, zucchini, etc.
To give a pleasant bite to this dal soup, you can add boiled sweet corn, grated carrot or beetroot, cooked and finely chopped baby corn, or french beans.
Avoid blending and straining the soup to get its maximum health benefits.
You can add chopped onion while boiling and minced garlic, chopped chili or curry leaves in tadka.
You can add vegetables and spices of your choice into this basic soup recipe and make different flavored healthy dal soup.
Add an extra tsp of ghee while serving.
Recipe by Zeel's Kitchen at https://www.zeelskitchen.com/recipe/moong-dal-soup-healthy-moong-dal-soup-recipe/