Landsliding Dhal Mountain
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TypeSide dish
Serves4 people
DateOctober 23, 2026
A bowl of dhal as a mountain with sliding rice, comforting and visibly disastrous.
A warm bowl of Nepali lentil dhal, styled as a sloping mountain with a 'landslide' of rice and a stream of coriander. The mountain recalls the Nepal disaster, the shifting rice the landslide, fitting the news and offering comfort as a side dish.
Ingredients
- 300 g dried red lentils
- 2 onions
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tomatoes
- 1 red chili pepper
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 400 ml water
- 200 g basmati rice
- 1 bunch fresh coriander
Method
- Cook the lentils with 400 ml water and salt until soft (20 min).
- Finely chop the onions, garlic, and chili.
- Heat oil in a pan, sauté onion, garlic, and chili until translucent.
- Add cumin, turmeric, ginger, and garam masala, fry briefly.
- Dice the tomatoes, add and cook until they break down.
- Add the onion-tomato mixture to the lentils, simmer another 10 min.
- Meanwhile, cook the rice according to package instructions.
- Spoon the dhal into a large dish, shaping it into a sloping 'mountain'.
- Spoon the rice in a diagonal streak from the top down over the dhal, like a landslide.
- Scatter roughly chopped coriander as a green stream along the 'flood'.
Serving notes
- Serve warm in one large dish so the mountain shape remains visible.
- Offer extra coriander on the side for those who want to cool off.