How to Use dal in a Sentence

dal

noun

• Or serve them with a meal to scoop up veggies or meat, or with a bowl of dal.
  — Leena Trivedi-Grenier, SFChronicle.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• The process begins with grinding rice and urad dal, a type of lentil.
  — Judy Buchenot, Aurora Beacon-News, 3 Oct. 2017
• Khan’s dal is thick rather than soupy, but cloudlike in texture.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• The dal was cooked but was just enough for two and not for the whole family!
  — Dr. Monita Soni, al, 2 Oct. 2019
• Scoop a spoonful or two into a bowl of dal or beans — black, red, white.
  — James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• Pair your pumpkin leaf fritters with warm khichdi or dal and rice.
  — Rituparna Roy, Bon Appétit, 30 Sep. 2022
• Ladle hot tarka-dal over and stir until spinach starts to wilt.
  — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
• Golden lentil dal with rice My golden lentil dal with rice.
  — Trisha Pasricha, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2026
• Serve dal over rice drizzled with salty yogurt and topped with onion and pepper.
  — Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit, 19 Mar. 2018
• Those childhood days of playing dal paran shaped his playing style.
  — Colin Millar, New York Times, 27 June 2026
• Think of the comfort of a steamy bowl of dal, or the hearty mushiness of diner lentil soup.
  — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 2 Dec. 2022
• Rich and soothing and profound, the dal is my favorite thing the restaurant serves.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
• The chef’s pride and joy is his dal makhani, cooked over low heat for up to a day with cream, tomatoes, garlic and ghee.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 10 July 2019
• Elevate dal with the crunch and colors of a curry leaf tadka.
  — Simi George, Bon Appétit, 22 Sep. 2021
• Our privilege is calling our cousin for a masur dal vada recipe.
  — Madhushree Ghosh, Longreads, 12 May 2021
• Each kit includes staples like rice and dal, and feeds a family of four for 15 days.
  — New York Times, Star Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
• At our favorite two places, his go-to to-go order (say that five times fast) is butter chicken, mine dal makhani.
  — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2021
• Move this dal from the stove to an Instant Pot by pressure cooking for half the cook time.
  — Magdalena O'Neal, Sunset Magazine, 15 Feb. 2022
• These break down very well and rather quickly, which is why they’re often used for Indian dal.
  — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2020
• Including, of course, a dal that has been cooking since yesterday.
  — Rachel Dube, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
• The matriarch of the Patel family keeps a pot of dal on the stove.
  — Nikita Stewart and Todd Heisler Elaine Chen and Nikita Stewart, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
• This clearing-out makes room for projects untouched by scan- dal, those made by people whose power is not so entrenched.
  — Daniel D'addario, Time, 18 Dec. 2017
• The nature of the dal depends entirely on who’s cooking it, where and in which season.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
• Murukku is a crunchy, sometimes spicy snack made with rice and urad dal flour mixed with water, spices and sometimes seeds, then deep fried.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 12 Nov. 2020
• Author aromatic dal is made with her favorite whole red lentils and finished with seasoned chile oil.
  — Erin Mayer, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2021
• Well, that mango pickle is doing the same thing, giving flavor to fairly bland meals of rice and dal.
  — Elyse Inamine, Bon Appétit, 12 Mar. 2020
• The case also includes another creamy concoction, dal makhani, a dish with black lentils.
  — Suhasini Raj Anindito Mukherjee, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• The seeds have a distinctly smokier flavor and add a pleasant texture to the dal.
  — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025
• Dinner that night was a whole baked catfish with red cabbage and mustard sauce, a dal made with black-eyed peas, and lemon custard for dessert.
  — Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2026
• This is a nonnegotiable—you’ll need to find urad dal at a South Asian grocery store or order them online for this recipe.
  — Mehreen Karim, Bon Appétit, 9 Dec. 2021