Tomato Dal / Tomato Pappu

Andhra Style Tomato Pappu :


Ingredients :
 



Tomatoes : 4 - 5
Green Chillies : 3-4
Turdal/kandhipappu - 2 cups
Onion - 1 -Grated finely
tamarind - lemon sized
Salt : acc to taste
chilli powder: acc to taste


Tadka :


mustard seeds - 1spn
urad dal- 1spn
chana dal- 1spn
jeera- 1spn
kadi pattha/karivepaaku - fist ful
red chilli slits
garlic ( Very Imp) - 5 to 6 pods




Before starting to cook, I suggest to just soak turdal with a pich of haldi and one spoon of oil.It makes the dal soft and allows it to get cooked faster when we start cooking.


Take a cooker.just add the soaked dal,onion,tomatoes,slit green chillies and add.
Now add tamarind.


Dont add salt at this moment as it stops dal from getting soft.Add haldi, chillipowder and close the cooker lid and allow it to get cooked till its consistency is mushy.


Now mash the dal, add salt and keep aside.


Take a small kadai, add 2 spoons of oil and add all the tadka ingredients.
Add this tadka to the dal above and ur home will be touched with the essence of heaven !!!


Now have it with hot steamed rice with vadiyams or papads as side dish.


My god !!! You will be lost :)

Pappu cabbage / Cabbage dal

Cabbage Dal:

Let us talk a truth now.See i some how got  used  not to allow cabbage in  my meal and so is my husband.
So we thought happyyy, we can get rid of that.
But later through my bestttt friend roja,got to know if cabbage gets angryyy on us its not good for health.

Sorry confused you ;) Cabbage is a negative calorie food and also may
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whats wrong in trying ...so i started with Cabbage Dal.Simple but tasty.

                                                                                                         

Requirements:
1.  Cabbage    - 1/2 piece ( grated or sliced into small pieces)
2.  Toor dal ( kandi pappu) - 1 cup
3.  Chillies ( slit vertically)-2
4.  Tomatoes - Nice red ones - 2
5.  zeera    - spoonful
6.  Tamarind - lemon sized
7.  salt     - according to taste
8.  Haldi    - according to taste
9.  chilli powder - according to taste
10. Onion     - 1

For tadka / popu:

mustard seeds - spoonful
red mirchi    - 2
curry leaves  - few
garlic pods   - 2
channadal     - spoonful
urad dal       - spoonful
Oil               - 3 spoons


1. Slit the onion and chilli vertically.
2. Cut tomato in to small pieces
3. Now take the toor da in a cooker.wash it and pour 1:2 glasses of water
   Two glasses of water for one glass of toor dal.
4. Add grated cabbage pieces,tomato pieces,onion,chilli,chilli powder,haldi,tamarind
5. and close the lid and allow it to pressure cook.
6. Depending on one's taste you can allow it to cook for two to three whistles and for a very smooth dal,allow it till 4 whistles
7. Now bring it down and mash it to smooth paste with bottom of your spoon.
8. Now heat the oil in a kadai and put all the tadka ingredients
9. add the tadka to our cabbage dal.

Enjoyy the low calorie food with high quality taste