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| I'm not claiming this recipe for Red Lentil Dal is 100% authentically Indian, but it's easy and delicious. |
One of the classic dishes in Indian cuisine is dal (also spelled dahl, daal, or dhal.) There are endless variations of this dish of split legumes or dried beans, simmered with spices until they are falling-apart soft and then often combined with a mixture of oil or ghee, fried onions, peppers and more spices. The world dal refers to the cooked dish and also the split legumes or beans it's made of and in various parts of India different types of dal are eaten with rice, vegetables, or Indian flatbreads such as Roti. I suppose the Mexican dish of refried beans is something you could compare this to if you're completely unfamiliar with Indian food, although that's an enormous simplification of something that's such a vital part of Indian cuisine.
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