Moong Dal Recipe
Ingredients
- Main ingredients
- Moong dal Paasi paruppu - 1.5 Cups
- 1 Big onion - sliced lengthwise
- 1 medium sized tomato - chopped
- Garlic cloves - 7
- Green chilli - 1 or 2 cut lengthwise
- Spices
- Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
- Coriander powder - 2 tbsp
- Sambar powder - 1 tbsp
- Turmeric powder - a pinch
- For seasoning
- Cumin seeds Jeera - 1 tsp
- Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
- Red Chilli - 1
- Hing - a generous pinch
- Curry leaves - a sprig
- Oil - 1 tbsp
- Ghee - 1.5 tbsp not for seasoning but to add in the end
- Salt to taste.
Instructions
- In a pressure pan, add 1 tbsp of cooking oil. Add cumin seeds. When they start to splutter, add mustard seeds.
- Once they splutter, add red chilli and hing. Then add curry leaves. Once the leaves are crispy, add the sliced onion along with slitted chilli.
- Add the garlic cloves once the onion becomes translucent. Add chopped tomatoes and cook until tomatoes get mushy.
- Add dal along with the water used for soaking. And 1.5 cups additional water.
- Add all the spice powders, mix and cook for three whistles.
- Once the pressure is down, open the pan and stir the dal so moong dal loses its shape.
- Add 1.5 tbsp of ghee and simmer for about 5 mins. Turn off the heat.
- Enjoy with hot chapatis.