Healthy Food Recipes - Capsicum Gravy!
Posted on: 21/Jan/2015 4:32:47 PM
Ingredients
- Capsicum – 200 grams
- Onion – 2 nos
- Tomato – 3 nos
- Garlic – 5 cloves
- Fried gram – 2 spoon
- Turmeric powder – ¼ spoon
- Sambhar Powder- 1 spoon
- Salt – as required
- Cooking oil – 3 spoon
- Curry leaves – a few
- Coriander leaves – a few
- Mustard seeds – ½ spoon
- Fennel Seeds – ½ spoon (Optional)
Method:
- Grind the fried gram in a mixer to a fine powder without adding water and transfer it in a bowl.
- Cut Capsicum, onion, tomato into a small pieces.
- Heat a pan with 3 spoons of oil and add mustard seeds and allow it to splutter.
- Then add the minced garlic and the curry leaves.
- Now add the chopped onion and the capsicum. Saute it well for about 5 minutes. Once it gets boiled well, add the chopped tomato. Saute it until the tomato shrinks and the raw smell leaves.
- Then add the required salt, turmeric powder, Sambar powder and mix well.
- Add required quantity of water and stir well.
- Close the lid and allow it to boil for some time.
- Then open the lid and add the fried gram powder. (You can refrigerate this powder and use it whenever needed).
- Allow it to blend well for about 5 minutes and switch off the flame.
- Sprinkle the chopped coriander leaves for garnishing.
- Hot Capsicum Masala is ready and serve it hot as a side dish for Chapatti!
Note:
- Just store the fried gram powder in the fridge and you can very well add this in any type of gravy which you are preparing for chapatti, it will give a thicker consistency to the gravy.
- While adding the fried gram powder, simultaneously keep on stirring it, so as to avoid the formation of cramps.
- If you adore the masala taste, then add a spoon of fennel seed powder to the gravy.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
