Daal Names in English with images & Recipes- PULSES, BEANS NAMES IN ENGLISH

 

Daal Name in English with images & Recipes- PULSES, BEANS NAMES IN ENGLISH

 

The fertile land of Indus valley grows various types of pulses (Daalain) at its lands. Urdu word “Daal” is called pulses or lentils in English. Also beans are part of pulses. Pulses are a regular part of Pakistani and Indian cuisine. Any house grocery is incomplete without different type of pulses in a cart. The pulses are available as whole, skinned or in a split form. A term “Whole Gram” means any “Sabat Daal”: sabat moong, sabat massor etc. The word “Skinned Gram” is used for “Dhuli daal” or without chilka daal : dhuli masoor, dhuli moong etc. The “Split Gram” is used for daal that has been break from whole for example daal channa is a split form of “black chickpeas”. These pulses are cooked with variety of recipes. Before telling you the English meaning of each Daal, let me tell you an interesting fact of my childhood that is related to differentiating among different Pulses (daal).

I told above that different type of daal is a necessary part of every grocery list in India and Pakistan. At my young age, when I started to help my mom in the kitchen, I remained confused between name and appearance of different daals. Whenever my mother asked me to take out for example: daal moong, then I asked her to tell the color and shape of daal instead of name. “Peeli or pink”, “kali ya harri” I just asked her? I remained confused between daal moong, daal masoor and daal mash. Above all the types, my mother asked like dhuli moong, sabat mash etc. and it was real challenge to differentiate between different pulses, for me. I can guess still young girls ask the colour of daal instead of name. Keeping in view the confusion, here I made it easy to provide a related mage with each daal name in English and Urdu.

Many mothers remain worried of fact that most kids and family members don’t like to eat daal salan (curry). At the end, I have told few popular and delicious recipes where you can add pulses or daal and nutrition in your daily routine without fussing.

 

 

DAAL NAME IN URDU	PULSES IN ENGLISH
Daal Chaana دال چنا	Split chickpeas lentils
Daal Masoor  دال مسور	Red lentil
Sabat Masoor Daal دال مسور ثابت	Whole red/brown lentil
Daal Moong(dhuli hui) دال مونگ دھلی	Yellow split gram
Daal moong (chilka) دال مونگ چھلکا	Green gram split
Sabat Moong Daal دال مونگ ثابت	Green gram, Moong bean
Daal Mash (dhuli hui) or دال ماش دھلی  Urad daal (dulhi hui)	Black gram (skinned)/ Split black gram
Sabat Mash / Urad sabat daal دال ماش ثابت	Black gram whole
Daal Mash chilka/ Urad chilka daal دال ماش چھلکا	Black gram split
Moth Daal	Turkish gram
Daal Arhur, Daal Toor, Tuvar Daal دال ارہر	Yellow split  pigeon pea
Rajma           راجماہ	Red kidney beans
Chota rajma	Adzuki beans
Sufaid rajma سفید راجماہ	White kidney beans
Lobia لوبیہ	Black eyed peas
Sufaid channey, kabli channey  سفید چنے	Chickpeas
Kaley channey کالے چنے	Black chickpeas
Harey channey ہرے چنے Matar مٹر Green pea Phaleian پھلیاں Shell bean/sea pod of peas or bean plant	Green chickpeas
Jo ka daliya جوکا دلیہ	Barley oatmeal, barley porridge
Gandum ka daliya گندم کا دلیہ	Wheat cereal/porridge/oatmeal
Khichree کھچڑی	Farrago, mishmash

NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF USING DAAL

Pulses ( daal ) and beans are rich source of protein  and have lot of nutritional benefits. Pulses can be replaced with chicken, mutton and beef to get enough protein. Also there are many Daal recipes in Pakistan where Daal is cooked with different type of meat to get taste and nutrition.

Popular Food & Recipes that are made of Daal

Haleem

Haleem is one of most cooked curry in Pakistan. Haleem is a mixture of 4-5 daal, meat and wheat cereal. This dish is very delicious and has all nutrition from different pulses.

Khitchree

Khitree is one of the popular dish to be cooked for toddlers and sick people. It is made of rice and daal moong.

Shami kabab

Shami kabab are widely used in sandwiches, burgers or with rice and roti throughout Pakistan. These delicious kabab are made of Daal chana and meat.

Recipe:

Take one cup daal chana, 1kg meat(beaf/mutton), garam masaley, salt, 1 onion chopped, 7-8 garlic cloves, 1 piece garlic, 1 spoon Lal mirch. Add all ingredients with 5 cup of water and let it cook for 15 minutes in a pressure cooker.

After 15 minutes, mash meat with daal finely. You can use chopper to mash the mixture. Add green chilies, onion, corrindor(dhaniyaa) and make shami kabab after taking a portion from chopped mixture. Put shami kabab in a flat tray and freeze them. Once the shami kabab are frozen, take them out and now store them in freezer in box or plastic bag for long use.   

Daal Chawal

You’ll very few people in Pakistan ho don’t like daal chawal. Different type of Daal, rajma, kaley channey, sufaid channey are much loved with boiled rice in Pakistan. You can also change Boiled rice with simple tarka rice to take enhaced flavor of dish. Also trying different daal each time with rice will give variety of taste to your family.

THE VEGETABLES DISHES THAT ARE COOKED WITH DAAL IN PAKISTAN ARE:

Daal chana with Kadu

Daal Chana with bengan

Daal Mash with Maithi( one of my favoirite salan)

You can add your special Daal recipe in comments that make your family kiss your hands.