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Andhra Style Pappu Recipe
Prep Time | 5 minutes |
Cook Time | 25 minutes |
Servings |
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Ingredients
- ½ cup tuvar dal / kandi pappu
- Handful moong dal / pesara pappu
- 2 medium tomatoes chopped
- 2 Green chilies slit or chopped
- ½ tsp red chilli powder (optional)
- Salt as needed
Tempering
- 2 tbsp Oil
- 1 sprig Curry Leaves
- ¼ tsp cumin / jeera
- Generous pinch of mustard
- 3/4 tsp ginger crushed/ grated / paste
- 2 broken red chilies
- ½ tsp red chilli powder
- Pinch of Hing
Optional ingredients
- little tamarind soaked in water
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Tempering
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Instructions
- Wash dal at least twice.
- Pressure cook dal, chopped tomatoes, green chilies with 1 ½ cups water for 2 whistles if cooking directly in the cooker. If you add dal to another utensil and place it in pressure cooker, then cook for 3 whistles on a medium flame. You can also add onions and red chilli powder while cooking dal.
- Once the pressure goes down, add salt, turmeric and mash the dal to smooth. If using tamarind, you can add now. To adjust the consistency you can very well add more water. If your dal is runny, you can evaporate the water by cooking further without lid
- Heat a pan with ghee or oil, add cumin, mustard. When they begin to splutter, add red chilies, ginger/ garlic, curry leaves. If needed you can add more green chili as well. Fry till the leaves turn crisp. Off the heat. Add hing and turmeric. Mix well
- Pour this to the mashed tomato pappu. Some folks like to cook further for few minutes to get a thick flavorful dal. Mix and serve hot with rice or chapathi.