This is a mild curry to go with rice. If you love to include pulses in your lunch, I recommend this. High in protein it’s good for kids.
Ingredients
Green gram dal – 1/2 cup
Tamarind – a small lemon sized
Shallots – 6 or 7
Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
Salt – as required
To sauté and grind
Tomato – 1 chopped
Coconut – 1/4 cup
Jeera seeds – 1 tsp
Methi seeds – 4 or 5
Curry leaves – few
Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
Coriander powder – 2 tsp
Oil – 1 tsp
To temper
Oil – 1 tsp
Mustard seeds – few
Curry leaves – few
Garlic – 2 pods crushed
Dry red chilli – 1
Method
- Pressure cook green gram for two or three whistles.
- Soak tamarind in 1/2 cup water.
- In a pan , heat oil and add methi seeds, jeera seeds.
- When jeera seeds crackle, add curry leaves and tomato. Sauté till tomato become soft.
- Then add coconut and sauté for few minutes.
- Switch off and add red chilli powder and coriander powder. When it’s cool down grind it to smooth paste. Keep aside.
- In the cooked green gram add shallots and turmeric powder. If needed add little bit water.
- Let it boil and shallots get cooked. Then add tamarind extract.
- Let it boil till the raw smell of tamarind goes.
- Add the ground coconut paste along with required water, salt and boil thoroughly. Keep aside.
- Heat oil in a pan and temper all the ingredients under ‘ to temper’.
- When the garlic becomes golden, switch off and pour the tempering to the curry.
- Serve along with rice.
Notes
- You can dry roast green gram dal for few minutes before pressure cooking.
The pictures are beautiful!
Thank you so much?..
Looks very delicious! Perfect with rice 🙂
Thank you Freda?..
Delicious… We make with little sour buttermilk… Pictures are lovely
Oh ..that’s new to me… Thank you Ruchi?
So delicious ?
Thank you dear?
Looks delish!!
Thank you Anu?
nice lathiya.. i tihnk it should be okay even without coconut
Yes Akhila.. sometimes I make without coconut too… but I love it with coconut?..
Awesome
Thank you dear?
Sounds wonderful, have to try! ?
Thank you ?…Do try..Am waiting for your feedback ☺
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