Pressure Cooker Rice and Daal

This describes how to cook a daal and rice at the same time in the pressure cooker. The key part of this recipe is two ratios: 1 part rice to 1.25 part water and 1 part lentils to 3 part water. There aren't any finished pictures for this because it smelled so good that I forgot to take any and tucked straight into it!

Ingredients

  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • 1 tsp black mustard seeds
  • 2 tbsp sunflower oil
  • 1 onion, peeled and finely chopped
  • 1/2 tsp asafoetida powder
  • 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  • 170ml dry green lentils - about 3/4 of a US cup
  • 510ml cold water for lentils- about 2 and 1/4 US cups
  • 170ml white basmarti rice - about 3/4 of a US cup
  • 212ml cold water for rice - about 90% of a US cup
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 4 dried green cardamon pods

Method

  1. Start by turning your pressure cooker on in saute (or frying) mode
  2. Place the cumin, mustard seeds and sunflower oil in the pressure cooker while it heats up
  3. Once you hear the seeds starting to pop, dump the onions, asafoetida and garlic into the pressure cooker and stir well
  4. Fry until the onions start to turn a bit translucent, probably a few minutes
  5. Add the dry lentils and the cold water for them to the pressure cooker and turn it off saute mode
  6. Put a steamer rack (or similar thing such as a trivet for raising bowls up in a pressure cooker) into the pressure cooker
  7. In a separate bowl that will fit into the pressure cooker, put the rice, water for the rice, cinnamon and cardamon pods
  8. Place the bowl of rice into the pressure cooker, on top of the steamer rack
  9. Put the lid on the pressure cooker
  10. Cook on high pressure for five minutes, then let it stand for five minutes before releasing the pressure
  11. Remove the rice bowl from the pressure cooker, remembering to use oven gloves as it'll be hot!
  12. Give the daal a good stir (as the liquid will probably have come to the top)
  13. Serve immediately in bowls, with the daal spooned over the rice, optionally garnished with freshly chopped corriander leaves

Serves 2, but can easily be doubled for 4.

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