Healthy Food Recipes - Kollu Thogayal (Horse gram Chutney)!
Posted on: 30/Jan/2015 12:35:07 PM
Ingredients
- Kollu (Horse gram) - 1 cup
- Bengal Gram – 1 spoon
- Urad Dal – 2 spoons
- Curry Leaves – a few
- Cooking oil – 3 spoons
- Salt – As required
- Mustard Seeds – ¼ spoon
- Cumin seeds – ¼ spoon
- Coconut – a small piece
- Asafoetida – a pinch
- Tamarind – a small lemon size (about 10 grams)
- Red Chilli – 3 nos
Method:
- Heat the dry pan and dry toast the Horse gram (Kollu), till you get the roasted smell. Then switch off the flame and keep aside in a separate plate to cool.
- Again heat the pan with 2 spoons of oil and add Urad dal, Bengal gram, and red chilli and fry all till the grams turns golden brown.
- Grind the roasted horse gram and the gram mixture in a mixer. In the half way through add salt, coconut and tamarind and grind it to a well ground paste.
- Heat the pan with 1 spoon of oil and add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, asafoetida for tempering and drop it on top of the thogayal.
- Yummy Kollu Thogayal is ready! Serve this as a side dish for rice or idli or dosai. It is simple to prepare and better choice when we run out of veggies.
Health Benefits of Horse Gram (Kollu):
- Aids in digestion.
- It holds little carbohydrate and rich in fibre, iron and calcium.
- Helps in lowering body cholesterol levels.
- Reduce body fat and there by best fit to incorporated in your diet when you are in the plan of weight loss.
- Assists in augmenting haemoglobin level in the blood.
- It also, aids in recovering from irregular menstruation cycle.
- But be aware, people suffering from tuberculosis, need to avoid consuming horse gram.
- Also, it is recommended that pregnant ladies should avoid incorporating horse gram in their diet.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
