+17 Indian Lentil Recipes

This is a collection of + 17 Indian Lentil Recipes, which I have put together because we need healthier and nutritious food dishes in our life.

And the best way to achieve that is with flavorful and spiced Indian Lentil dishes.

So if you are looking for more inspiration, read on!

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• 💡 Why you should try Indian Lentil Dishes!
• 🧈 Butter Lentil Curry aka Dal Makhani
• 🍲 Indian Lentil Soup
• 🌾 Instant Multigrain Pesto Dosa
• 🍛 Garlic Scape Dal Curry
• 🥥 Ginger Coconut Lentil Soup
• 🌯 Baked Masala Vada
• 🧄 Currried Black Lentil (Urad) Soup
• 🍮 Red Lentils Pudding - Halwa
• 🌿 Mixed Lentils and Dill
• 🥭 Mango Dal
• 🧅 Goan Masoor Dal Lentil Curry
• 🥣 Lentil Dip Appetizer
• 🥒 Zucchini Turmeric Red Lentil Stew
• 🥙 Baked Olive Lentil Fritters aka Dal Vada
• 🌶 South Indian Sambar Recipe
• 🥘 Indian Fusion Black Truffle Dal
• 🍠 Sweet Potato and Lentil Kebab
• 💬 Comments

💡 Why you should try Indian Lentil Dishes!

For a very long time I didn't have a clue that there were that many ways to add lentils to my daily diet!

Lentils are nutritious and packed with vitamins, minerals, and most excitingly, proteins.

I, personally, enjoy lentil dishes if they are tasteful and with that, I mean a lentil dish needs to be spiced or a mixture of herbs needs to be added during the cooking process.

Do you feel the same way?

Years ago I had no clue that I would fall in love with Indian lentil recipes the way I did when I got to taste different dishes.

Lentils are so versatile, you can turn them into soups, curries, appetizers, and even sweets!

That of course is good news for us because it gets easy to just add lentils to our daily diet if we have more lentil preparation options and recipe ideas.

So while I could see that people were magically creating wonderful lentil dishes, I was still confused about the dish names and the different Indian lentil dishes.

At the same time I am picky.

I don't like these very rural Indian lentil dishes. I prefer the Westernized/fusion/balti variations.

The Indian lentil recipes made for goris (white foreigners) if you know what I mean.

So yes, my favorite Indian lentil recipes need to be flavorful, exciting and pleasing to the eye.

Over the years I extended my knowledge and in the past days I got around to collect the best Indian lentil recipes from my fellow food blogger friends.

You can discover all this and more in the delicious Indian lentil recipes below.

They are in no particular order.

To get to the full printable recipe just click on the dish title or on the picture.

🧈 Butter Lentil Curry aka Dal Makhani

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🍲 Indian Lentil Soup

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🌾 Instant Multigrain Pesto Dosa

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🍛 Garlic Scape Dal Curry

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🥥 Ginger Coconut Lentil Soup

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🌯 Baked Masala Vada

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🧄 Currried Black Lentil (Urad) Soup

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🍮 Red Lentils Pudding - Halwa

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🌿 Mixed Lentils and Dill

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🥭 Mango Dal

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🧅 Goan Masoor Dal Lentil Curry

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🥣 Lentil Dip Appetizer

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🥒 Zucchini Turmeric Red Lentil Stew

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🥙 Baked Olive Lentil Fritters aka Dal Vada

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🌶 South Indian Sambar Recipe

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🥘 Indian Fusion Black Truffle Dal

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🍠 Sweet Potato and Lentil Kebab