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Prerequisite: Pressure cooker

Moongdal pappu is a Telugu dish. We use green gram dal in it. Thanks Suma for the recipe.

Ingredients Used:

1/2 cup moongdal/greengram dal
1/2 chopped onion
1 tomato
4 green chillies
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
Tamarind- about the size of half a lemon(made into paste using little water)
1/2 tsp mustard seed s
1/2 tsp cumin/jeera seeds
2 tsp ghee/ oil or clarified butter
1 sprig curry leaves
6 skinned and crushed garlic cloves
1/2 cup finely chopped coriander leaves
Salt and water as per requirement

How to make:

Take moongdal. Clean it well. To this, add half a chopped onion, one small tomato, four green chillies cut cylindrically into small pieces, turmeric powder and small piece of tamarind. Cook upto three whistles in a pressure cooker and when cool, mash it nicely with a ladle.
Heat oil in a cooking pot. Add mustard seeds, jeera seeds and curry leaves. Wait till they crackle. Then add six crushed garlic pods and onion which is chopped lengthwise. Fry till brown. Next, add chopped coriander leaves and then the dal to it. Use required amount of salt. Cook to a boil. Moongdal pappu is ready to be eaten with plain rice or fresh rotis.