Podi Pappu / Pappu fry / Dry dal fry

Hi ,
This is my husband's favourite recipie,it needs less time but more consciousness.Tasty and fast curry to prepare.I learnt it from my mother in law, as she always does it for her son and now its my turn ;) to do it for her son. isnt it ? ;)


Welcome to the Recipie preparation :


Dry Dal Fry

  Ingredients :


Toordal/kandhipappu : 1cup
onion :1 small
green mirchi :3
salt: acc to taste
turmeric: 1 spoon
mirchipowder : acc to taste
Oil : 1 spoon

Ingrdients for tadka/popu :


minappappu / urad dal : 1 spoon
chandal/ pachi senagapappu : 1 spoon
aavalu / mustard seeds : 1 spoon
jeera/ jeelakarra : 1 spn
red mirchi : 2 #s


Now lets start the preparation :


First , soak the toordal with 1 cup of water, pinch of turmeric and two drops of oil, just for few mins b4 cooking.


Now pressure cook the dal with water in a cooker and stop it when it is stiff enough as in the pic ( not mushy ).
Take care that it shud not be too mushy or too stiff. Now once it is cooked enough, turn off and drain the excess water if any and let the dal kept ready for preparation.


1. Take a kadai, heat nicely
2.put a tspn of oil, let it heat
3. put all the tadka ingredients,let them splutter
4.Add finely chopped onions, green mirchi,allow them to fry nicely
 5.Now add the dal which is kept aside in the beginning and keep stirring
5.Add salt,turmeric,chillipowder and keep stirring.
6.Note : stir with skillet closed if they are a bit stiff and stirr only open if they are abt to be mushy.


Thats it here you are !!! Garnish with coriander and server hot with steamed rice...


Variations : You can add dry coconut powder and stirr, cook at the end keeping lid closed for 5 mins.