Instant Pot Dal and Rice Recipe
Making Rice & dal (lentils) in your instant pot is super easy and quick. This is a beginners guide to cook rice & dal together in instant pot.
© Swasthi's Recipes
Servings: 2
Ingredients
For Dal
- ½ cup toor dal (or ¼ cup moong dal & ¼ cup toor dal)
- 1½ cups water (to add later ¼ cup hot water if needed)
- ½ to ¾ cup tomatoes chopped (2 medium)
- 1 tablespoon oil or ghee
- ¼ to ½ teaspoon mustard seeds (optional)
- ½ teaspoon cumin
- 1 sprig curry leaves (or small bay leaf)
- 1 green chili slit or chopped
- 1 red chili (optional)
- 1 garlic clove chopped
- ½ inch ginger chopped (optional)
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric
- ½ teaspoon red chilli powder
- ½ to ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoons lemon juice or amchur powder (dry mango powder)
- 2 tablespoons coriander leaves chopped or ½ tsp kasuri methi
For rice
- 1 cup rice (basmati or any )
- 1¼ cup water (for basmati, 2 cups for masuri, refer notes)
Instructions
Preparation
- Add rice to a steel bowl and rinse it well a few times. Then soak it until you prepare the rest.
- Rinse and chop tomatoes, ginger, garlic and green chilies. Set them aside.
- Add dal to a bowl or strainer and rinse it well a few times under running water. Drain the water completely.
How to Make Instant Pot Dal
- Press the saute button on your IP and pour oil to the steel insert.
- Add the mustard, cumin, red chilli & green chilli.
- Wait for the mustards to pop, then add curry leaves, ginger and garlic. Saute for a minute.
- Then add tomatoes, salt, turmeric and red chilli powder.
- Saute all of them just for 1 to 2 minutes.
- Add the rinsed dal and pour water. Deglaze by scraping the bottom of the pot with the spatula to release any food bits stuck.
- Place a long legged trivet inside the pot and then place the rice bowl. Pour water to the rice bowl.
- Cover the rice bowl. Secure the instant pot with the lid.
- Position the steam release handle to sealing. Press cancel and then press pressure cook. Set the timer to 9 mins.
- Let the pressure release naturally. Then remove the rice bowl carefully & then the trivet.
- Stir the dal and check the salt. If needed add more and squeeze in lemon juice and sprinkle coriander leaves.
- If the dal is too thick then add ¼ cup water to bring it to consistency.
- Serve dal with rice or roti. Drizzle some ghee over hot dal.
Video
Watch Instant Pot Dal Video
Nutrition
Calories: 603kcal | Carbohydrates: 110g | Protein: 20g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 699mg | Potassium: 763mg | Fiber: 17g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 646IU | Vitamin C: 74mg | Calcium: 84mg | Iron: 6mg
