Ullikadala Pappu ~ How to Make Spring Onion Dal Recipe:
Ingredients:
Toor Dal: ½ cup
Chopped Spring Onion (greens & whites): 1.5 cups
Tomato: 1 big sized
Tamarind: small lemon sized ball
Green Chillies: 2 – 3
Dried Chilli: 1
Garlic : 2 – 3 cloves (Optional)
Red Chilli Powder: ½ tsp
Mustard Seeds: ½ tsp
Chana Dal : ½ tsp
Urad Dal: ½ tsp
Cumin Seeds: ½ tsp
Turmeric Powder: ¼ tsp
Hing: ⅛ tsp
Oil: 2 tsp
Salt to taste
Method:
1. Soak the tamarind in water for 10 minutes, then squeeze the extract out of it and set aside.
2. Put
the
rinsed toor dal, chopped spring onions, slit green chillies, chopped
tomato, turmeric and one and a quarter cups of water in a pressure
cooker and
cook till 3 whistles.
3. Turn off
the flame and wait until the pressure go off.
4. Add the tamarind extract, salt and red chilli powder to the cooked dal and allow it to cook for 5 minutes.
5. Heat a teaspoon of oil
in a pan. Add the mustard seeds, chana dal, urad dal and cumin seeds
and let them splutter. Then add the garlic, hing and broken red chilli and fry for a few seconds and switch off the flame.
6. Pour this seasoned ingredients over the dal and combine well.
7. Serve hot with rice or roti.
divya says
looks super delicious and lovely presentation 🙂
Swathi Iyer says
That is delicious curry for chapathi Hari I love it.
Veena Theagarajan says
looks yummy.. flavourful too
Preety says
never used spring onion in a dal..interesting idea to keep in mind for next time..:)
Sangeetha Nambi says
Looks delicious…
Divya Shivaraman says
never had one such try…totally new recipe dear
Sowmya Madhavan says
Nice one..
Navaneetham Krishnan says
Its interesting to discover how you used spring onions for this dal recipe. Glad to see the creativity because I have never done the same.
Awesome flavors and punchy flavors.