Veetee Dal Tadka: Yellow and red lentils in a "punjabi tadka"
My schedule has been pretty insane lately, and I haven't been able to cook. While I don't normally buy a lot of prepared meals, I happened to have this Veetee dal in the cupboard, so I tried it for dinner tonight. I enjoyed it, and it definitely helped break up the peanut butter sandwich monotony.
I've had other Veetee meals before, and I've always been impressed with their quality and authenticity. I don't generally have high expectations for food that comes in pouches, but their packaged curries are an exception. The ingredients are all real, recognizable foods, and I don't feel like I'm settling on eating crap for the sake of convenience.
After microwaving the pouch for two minutes, it's ready to serve. A+ for speed and simplicity of preparation!
The first thing you may notice about this dal is that gigantic red chili hanging out in there. This stuff is SET YOUR FACE ON FIRE hot. Now, the package describes the product as spicy, so I guess I can't complain that they didn't warn me.
While a bowl of lentils hardly ever looks appetizing, I can assure you that this tasted really good. There were whole curry leaves in there, as well as whole cumin and mustard seeds. You know, like you'd have in there if you'd actually cooked this yourself (or not?). It looks like real food. It tastes like real food! It's good!
Just be sure to serve it with plenty of rice (I didn't have enough!) if you're sensitive to heat, because this stuff is not messing around.
Pro tip: Grocery Outlet sometimes sells Veetee products for $1. That is a fantastic price, so I suggest keeping an eye out. Grocery Outlet, I love so much about the things that you choose to be!
4 comments:
Pray tell where do you buy this besides Grocery Outlet? Your glowing review has me dying to buy.
I wish I knew. I've never seen it anywhere else. I just buy lots of them whenever Grocery Outlet decides to stock them. They have some right now!
I grab as many of these as I can when I see them, always at GO. They are better than pouch food has a right to be, but I put that up to Indian cuisine being hard to make from synthetic food.
I just took my first bite of this product seconds ago. Not that spicy, but much spicier than what the American market has become used to. Authentic taste with excellent balance. I'm enjoying it more as a soup than a curry meal, because I don't have any rice. I paid $1 at a Reno, NV Grocery Outlet for this.
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