Lentil soup recipe,a healthy low calorie soup and a quite filling one too perfect for diet watchers. Today i wanted to make some some soup and i tried this soup from tarla dalal recipe book, and it came out very well. According to the recipe the soup was made with masoor dal. Since i don't have masoor dal at home, I replaced that with yellow moong dal.
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Lentil soup recipe

• Recipe Cusine: Indian
• Prep Time: 10 Minutes
• Cook time: 25 Minutes
• Serves: 3-4
• Author: Jeyashri
• Recipe Category: Lunch | Dinner
• Description: Lentil soup recipe,a healthy low calorie soup and a quite filling one too perfect for diet watchers.

     Yellow moong dal  1/4 cup
     Onion  3
     Tomato   3
     Garlic  3-4 cloves 
     Red chili powder  1/4 tsp
     Oil  1 tsp
    Salt  as needed
    Cooked rice  1 tsp
   Lemon juice  2 tsp

Method with step by step pictures :

• Soak moong dal in water for 10 mins.
• Cut the onion and tomatoes into big pieces.

• In a pressure cooker, add oil and add the onions.
• Saute for 2 mins.


• Now add the tomatoes and garlic and saute for 2 mins.

• Now add the red chilli powder and salt to this.
• Add the moong dal now.

• Add 4 cups of water and pressure cook till 3 whistles.
• When it is done allow this to cool.
• Grind this in a mixie and bring it to a nice boil.
• Add water to adjust the soup consistency. 
• Add lemon juice to this, after switching off the stove.
• Add the cooked rice  while serving.(This is Optional).