Sunday, January 31, 2010

మెంతి ఆకు కంది పప్పు: Menthi aaku kandi pappu- Fenugreek greens with pigeon peas

Preparation time: 15 to 20 minutes
(Serves three)

Ingredients:

One bunch of fresh fenugreek(Menthi Kura) - washed and leaves plucked
1 cups of Toor dal(Kandi pappu)
1 tomato
2 green chillies -halved
Small lemon sized tamarind
1/4 tsp of turmeric
Salt to taste

Popu/Seasoning/thiragamaatha/tadka :

1 tsp of oil , mustard seeds, cumin and urad dal
Few curry leaves
Pinch of hing powder

Preparation:
Cook dal: In a pressure cooker, take toor dal, fenugreek leaves, tomato, green chillies, and turmeric -one and half cups of water and pressure cook them till 3 whistles. When the valve pressure is all released, remove the lid, add tamarind, half teaspoon of salt and cook for 2 more minutes.

Popu: In a laddle heat one teaspoon of oil, add the remaining popu or tadka ingredients. Saute till the seeds start crackling,.

Add popu to the cooked dal, stir well and cover. Tastes great with rice and chapati.

5 comments:

  1. The photo needs to be uploaded again
    it is overtaking the SCRIPT :)


    please add 'seasoning' to the list of popu/tadka etc for non-Indian readers.

    plus 'garita' is fine but have 'laddle' in brackets so everyone understands what we are talking about :)

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  2. pls remove 'date' option from your settings in camera...

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  3. sure, will remove the date option. I tried uploading the pic again but not sure how it is looking now. Becoz it was looking fine even yesterday. Pls let me know if it needs to be uploaded again :)

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  4. is it not necessary to chop the leaves? That's we do at home.
    Also, it tastes very yummy if you fry fine chopped onions in the tadka along with crushed garlic. Perhaps you could mention that as "Variations" if onion/garlic are not wanted in the main recipe.

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