మామిడి వరుగుల పప్పు: Mamidi varugula pappu: Pigeon peas with dried green mango

INGREDIENTS:

1.Dried Mango Pieces................1/2 cup

2.Tuvar Dal..................................1 cup.

3.Chilly Powder............................2 t sp.

4.Turmeric.....................................1/2 t sp.

5.Salt................................................1/2 tsp.

6.Green Chilly.................................4

7.Red Chilly......................................2

8.Mustard Seeds..............................1 t sp.

9.Cumin Seeds...................................

10.Asafoetida...................................

11.Oil..................................................2 tbl sp.

12.Cilantro, curry leaves.................as needed.

METHOD:

1.To dry mango pieces, you must prepare them, when raw mangoes are available and so that you can store them. when you want to eat maamidi kaya pappu you should be able to make and eat it. to prepare these, in the mango season, take raw mango which is sour, cut in to pieces. you can store them as it is like this. but these pieces may not stay for year, fungus may form. To prepare these pieces is, add salt,turmeric to them and keep it for over night keeping covered.

next day, you can see, it oozes out some water. now squeeze out this water and dry the pieces in the sun, after 2 or 3 days drying as they will be ready to store for more than a year. with these you prepare pappu now.

2. Soak the mango pieces in water for 2 hours. they should become soft.

3. Cook Tuvar dal either in cooker or out side directly. dal should be cooked nicely,but not become paste type of cooking.

4. Now cook mango pieces in little water. put turmeric. when they are soft add it to dal.

5. Cook together some time, adding chilly powder. salt should be added as needed. because we already have salt in the dried mango pieces.

6. Cut green chilly add to dal.

7. For seasoning, heat oil in a pan put red chilly pieces, mustard, cumin seeds, and asafoetida.

when they splitter add to the dal.

8. Mix it nicely. the dried mango dal is ready to eat hot with hot rice adding ghee in it.

9. It serves 3 people.