Healthy Food Recipes - Green Moong Gravy (Green Gram/ Pasi Payaru Gravy)
Posted on: 13/Jan/2015 3:51:04 PM
Ingredients
- Green Moong Dal – 1 cup
- Onion – 2 nos
- Tomato – 2 nos
- Garlic - 5 nos
- Aniseed – 1 spoon
- Mustard seeds – 1 spoon
- Curry leaves – a few
- Turmeric powder – ¼ spoon
- Sambar Powder – 1 spoon
- Salt – as needed
- Cooking oil – 4 spoon
- Coriander leaves – a few
Method:
- Heat the pan and sauté the green moong dal, till you get the nice aroma of the green moong dal.
- Then soak it in water for about 15 to 20 minutes.
- Finely chop both onion and tomato.
- Now heat the pan with one spoon of oil and add mustard seeds and aniseeds.
- Then add the minced garlic and chopped onion and sauté till the onion turn golden brown.
- Now add the chopped tomato and smash well. Sauté it well until the tomato shrinks and the raw smell leaves. Then add the drained the green moong dal to it.
- Then add the turmeric powder, sambar powder, salt and add required quantity of water and pressure cook it for about 4 to 5 whistles.
- Then open the lid and using the ladle gently mash the ingredients well.
- Sprinkle the chopped coriander leaves for garnishing.
- Hot and Tangy Side dish, the Green Moong Dal gravy is ready to serve!
Note:
- You can very well add a spoon of garam masala powder at the time of adding the sambar powder. The curry will be tastier.
- As we are roasting the moong dal in a pan, soaking it for about 15 minutes is more than enough for the dal to boil well.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
