Name: Dal Makhani (Black Lentils)
Brand: Mandira's Kitchen
SKU: 8962
Price: 11.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Dal Makhani (Black Lentils)

£11.00

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Simmered Overnight

Two portions of black lentils, simmered with tomatoes, fresh ginger and fenugreek.

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Description

The dal that takes the longest and asks the least of you. Black urad lentils go on overnight with ginger, tomato and kasuri methi, which is dried fenugreek, until they turn dark and fall apart on the spoon. It is deep and gently spiced rather than hot, the sort of thing you could eat with a spoon straight from the pot. Cooked in our kitchen at Silent Pool and frozen the same day. Naan, always naan.

How it tastes

Tastes of

Thick and glossy, Black lentils, Mild and slow

Feels like

Slow-simmered dal, Clove, Kasuri methi at the finish

🌶️ Mild – Delicately spiced, full of flavour with little to no heat.

Heat guide: 🌶 Mild · 🌶🌶 Medium · 🌶🌶🌶 Hot — made in a kitchen that handles gluten.

£11.00

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Total for 5 items £11.00

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Eleven Great Taste Awards

Before you order

You should know

Ingredients

Black Lentils, Red Onion, Tomatoes, Garlic, Ginger, Cream (Milk), Turmeric, Coriander, Chilli, Fenugreek, Butter (Dairy).

Allergens Info

Milk ** While we make all effort to avoid cross-contamination, please be aware that we do handle allergens in our kitchen.

Nutritional Information

Per 100g: Energy 1069 kJ / 255 kcal, Fat 21g (sat 13g), Carbohydrate 12g (sugars 1.5g), Fibre 4.6g, Protein 4.9g, Salt 1.08g (calculated)

Storage & Shelf Life

Store in the freezer. Once defrosted, keep refrigerated and consume within 48 hours. Do not refreeze. Best before: see pack.

Serving Suggestions

Remove the outer sleeve, then heat from frozen in the microwave, oven or on the hob for the time on the pack. Shake or stir halfway through, then cut open, make sure it's piping hot all the way through, and serve. They can be heated from frozen. If defrosted, keep in the fridge and use within 48 hours.

Why Mandira's

The difference you can taste

Frozen curry has a reputation. Ours was built to break it.

Mandira's Kitchen

The real thing

The usual

Supermarket & takeaway

A 400-year-old Surrey barn you can actually visit

An address on the back of the box

Mandira's own family recipes from Calcutta

A recipe written to hit a price point

Whole spices, ground fresh each morning

Pre-blended powder, shipped in bulk

Cooked properly, then frozen to hold the flavour

Cooked from frozen, or reheated twice

A chef with 11 Great Taste Awards and Nigella's nod

No one you'll ever meet

10 minutes from freezer to table

A 40-minute wait, or a delivery fee

The delivery

What arrives at your door

Blast-frozen the day it's cooked, packed in sheep's-wool insulation, straight into your freezer.

2 Portions

Feeds two as a main, or four as one dish among several.

6 Months In The Freezer

Freezing is the only preservative we use.

10 Minutes To Serve

Microwave 4 to 5 minutes, or 8 minutes on the hob.

Ingredients You Can Read

Black lentils, onion, tomato, garlic, ginger, cream and our spices.

The ritual

Dinner in ten minutes

No defrosting, no guesswork. From freezer to table in three steps.

Heat from frozen

Microwave 4 to 5 minutes, or tip into a pan for 8 minutes on the hob.

Stir halfway

Give it a stir midway and heat until piping hot throughout.

Serve

Spoon over rice, tear the naan. Dinner's done.

Our barn, our recipes

Cooked in a barn above Silent Pool

This gravy starts the way it did in Mandira's family kitchen in Calcutta: whole spices, toasted and ground the same morning, cream stirred in slowly so it never splits.

We cook in small batches in a 400-year-old barn in the Surrey Hills, then blast-freeze every pot the day it's made. Cooked, then frozen. That order is the whole point.

11Great Taste Awards

400 yrsof barn, give or take

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