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Pressure-cook your dal: big flavour, zero oil

Pressure-cook your dal: big flavour, zero oil

A pressure cooker tenderizes dal and rajma with just water and steam, so you can skip the oil or ghee tadka. That one swap takes a bowl of dal fry from about 245 kcal down to about 180 kcal with the same spices.

12 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
pressure-cooker no-oil dal cooking

Most of the calories in your dal and rajma do not come from the lentils. They come from the oil or ghee you fry them in. A pressure cooker fixes that. It tenderizes dal, rajma and meat with hot steam, so you need no oil to cook them soft. Add the same spices, skip the tadka oil, and the bowl gets much lighter.

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