Dosakaya Pappu Recipe – A typical Andhra Dal / Side dish made with lentils and yellow cucumber.
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Dosakaya Pappu Recipe - Andhra Yellow Cucumber Dal Recipe
How to Make Andhra Dosakaya Pappu - A typical Andhra style dish made with lentils and yellow cucumber.
Ingredients
- ½ cup Toor Dal / Split yellow pigeon peas
- 1.5 cups Yellow Cucumber chopped
- 2 Green Chillies
- ½ tsp Mustard Seeds
- ½ tsp Chana Dal
- ½ tsp Urad Dal
- ¼ tsp Turmeric Powder
- ⅛ tsp Hing
- Gooseberry size ball Tamarind
- 1 sprig Curry Leaves
- 1 Dried Red Chilli
- Red Chilli Powder as needed
- Sat to taste
- 1 tsp Oil
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Instructions
- Soak the tamarind in water for 10 minutes and squeeze the water out of it and set aside.
- Put the rinsed toor dal, chopped cucumber, turmeric, slit green chillies and 1.5 cups of water in a pressure cooker and cook for 3 – 4 whistles.
- Switch off the heat and wait until the pressure go off.
- Add the tamarind extract, salt and red chilli powder to the cooked dal and let it simmer for 5 minutes.
- Heat oil in a pan for seasoning and add the mustard seeds, chana dal and urad dal. Let them splutter.
- Add the curry leaves, broken red chilli and hing and stir for few seconds. Switch off the flame
- Add the seasoned ingredients to the dal and mix well.
- Serve hot with rice or roti.
Nutrition values are estimates only.
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Method:
- Soak the tamarind in water for 10 minutes and squeeze the water out of it and set aside.
- Put the rinsed toor dal, chopped cucumber, turmeric, slit green chillies and 1.5 cups of water in a pressure cooker and cook for 3 – 4 whistles.
- Switch off the heat and wait until the pressure go off.
- Add the tamarind extract, salt and red chilli powder to the cooked dal and let it simmer for 5 minutes.
- Heat oil in a pan for seasoning and add the mustard seeds, chana dal and urad dal. Let them splutter.
- Add the curry leaves, broken red chilli and hing and stir for few seconds. Switch off the flame
- Add the seasoned ingredients to the dal and mix well.
- Serve hot with rice or roti.
You might also like to check these Recipes:
- Lachko Dal
- Moong Dal Drumstick Sambar
- Thotakura Sambar
- Vendakkai Mandi
- Vellarikka Pulissery
- Andhra Dosakaya Koora
- Dosakaya Mukkala Pulusu
How to Make Dosakaya Pappu Recipe with Video:
kanthi says
sounds tasty and healthy
srividhya Ravikumar says
looks cool dear… delicious..
Subhashini says
my all time fav.looks yummy
Niru says
my favorite…very nice..
Ananda Rajashekar says
Oh All time fav 🙂
Priya says
Delicious dal..
RAKS KITCHEN says
This is new to me,but have seen recently in few blogs …looks nice!
Rachana says
Delicious dal…
Kurinji says
Healthy dal.
Suparna says
Hi Hari,
Wow! nice way to use up cucumber in dal, looks yummy.
TC