MUDHA PAPPU

The very basic DAL...... We generally call it MUDHA(mashed) PAPPU....
It goes well and yummy with   hot Rice and Ghee.........

Ingredients:

 

1. Kandhi pappu / Toor dal           - 1 cup

2. turmeric pwdr    - a pinch (optional)

3. water     -   1.5 cups

4. salt      -  to taste

5. oil - a drop (optional) 

TIP: Adding turmeric pwdr and oil will speed up the process of cooking dal.

Procedure :

 1. Wash Dal well....

 2. Add water , turmeric powder and oil .( dont add salt now. )

TIP: Soak this for 10 mins ... which will cook dal faster

3. Now Pressure cook it for 3 - 4 whistles.

( If not pressure cooker, you can directly cook on flame... but it takes more time and thus waste of time and GAS )

4. wait till the pressure cools down and open the cooker.

5. Now add salt and mash the dal well.

6.Serve hot....

TOMATO PAPPU/TOMATO DAL

This is one of the favourite dishes of almost all Andhra people..... this goes superb vth potato fry/ aratikaya fry .....
we all love love it.......very simple and delicious......... my hubby loves it too ....

I will tell you two ways of doing it .... one thats done at our home... the other at local hotels/mess....

INGREDIENTS:

1. tomatoes  chopped               4
2. toor dal / kandhi pappu       1cup
3. green chillies                        4
4. onion (medium size)            1 (sliced)
5. red chilli powder                  1tbspn
6. tamarind                               lemon size(  make it less if tomatoes are too sour)
7. turmeric powder                   a pinch
8. oil                                         2 drops(optional)
9. water                                    1.5 cups(or till all these ingredients are covered)

for TEMPERING:

1. red chillies                              3
2. garlic pods                               2
3. mustard seeds                          1 tspn
4. cumin seeds                             1tspn
5. curry leaves                             6
6. asafoetida/hing                        a pinch
7. oil                                             1 tspn

PROCEDURE 1:


1. Wash the dal properly.

2  Soak them for atleast 15mins.. The longer you soak, the faster it will cook.

3. Put all the ingredients mentioned in a vessel.......

 4. Now add suffiecient water.

5. Now Pressure cook it well. for 5-6 whistles

 6.. take out the lid and if it has water floating then put it on stove and make it boil.

7. add salt and mash the dal completely.

8. for tempering, take a pan/ tadka kadai , add oil

9. after its hot, add broken red chilles, garlic, mustard, cumin, hing, curry leaves .

10. now add this tempering to the cooked dal.....

11. serve hot with rice , fry and papads........

PROCEDURE 2:

1. cook toor dal seperately vth a pinch of turmeric for 4 whistles.
2. take a pan and ad oil.
3. now add all the items for tempering.

4. add chopped onions and green chillies and fry them for 2  mins.

5. now add tomatoes 

6. Once the tomatoes turn mushy,

7. now add tamarind juice and red chilli powder.
8. add some water and add the cooked mashed dal and bring to boil ....

9. add salt and serve hot

PALAKURA PAPPU/SPINACH DAL

SPINACH DAL:

my friend radhika said this way of doing spinach..

previously i used to put everything in pressure cooker but my husband dint like it.
once during lunch hours radhika shared her dal.i liked it n asked her the recipe and tired it.my H liked it too.thanku radhiiiii............

Ingredients:

kandi pappu(toor dal) - 1 cup

pala kura(spinach) - 2 cups -washed properly n cut

green chillies - 4

Red chillies - 2

onion - 1 small - cut into thin slices

tomato - 1 small - cut into small pieces

tamarind extract - 11/2 tbspn

turmeric powder - a pinch

red chilli powder - 1 tspn

cumin seeds - 1tspn

mustard seeds - 1 tspn

curry leaves - 5 leaves

salt - as required

Procedure:

1. wash toor dal properly.
2. pour 1 cup water and a pinch of turmeric powder to it.
3. pressure cook it.

4.Meanwhile, take a kadai and heat 1 tbsp oil.

 5.once its hot , add red chillies,mustard seeds and cumin seeds.

6. once they start spluttering add curry leaves and turmeric powder.

7.now add onions and grren chillies.

8.saute them until onions turn transulate.
9.then add spinach and fry it for 5 mins or till spinach gets cooked.

10.then add tomato and fry for 5mins.

11.then add red chilli powder, tamarind paste and fry for another 2mins.

12.then add salt and cooked toor dal. mix well and cook for 2mins.

13.serve with hot rice.