Saturday, July 23, 2011

Green Gram dhal kadaisal and Mushroom pepper fry

This is my post for the 2nd day on BM#7 "Combo Meals" and my family loves this combo,it's a speciality from Kongunad,coz am from Coimbatore and this a common recipe back home....any fry will be yummy with this and i made this combo last week...
Hope u enjoy this!


Green Gram dhal kadaisal
(Pachai Payar Kadaisal)







Ingredients:
Green Gram dhal- 1/2 cup
Sambar onions- 6nos(chopped)
Tomato-1small(chopped)
Green chilli-6no(we like it hot)u can adjust accordingly
Jeera-1/2 tsp
Turmeric-1/4tsp
water-1 cup
Salt to taste

Seasoning:
Mustard-1/2tsp
Urad dhal-1/2 tsp
Jeera-1/2tsp
Curry leaves-few sprigs
Red chilli-2no broken and seeds taken off

Method:

1.Wash the dhall and keep aside.
2.Heat a small pressure pan add 1/2 tsp of oil add the chopped onion and fry for 2mins add the chopped green chillies and the tomatoes and saute for another 5mins,then add turmeric salt and water followed by the washed green gram dhal.
3.Pressure cook for 2 whistles and keep the cooker on low flame for 5-10 mins and turn off.
4.Open the cooker and mash the contents with a traditional hand msher(mathu).. and pour the contents to another bowl.
5.Prepare the seasoning by heating 2tsp of oil splutter mustard,urad dhal,red chillies,jeera and curry leaves and pour over the mashed dhal..
6.Serve this with a small dash of ghee over hot plain white rice ...it's heavenly........
7.Served this with mushroom pepper fry.....

The recipe for mushroom pepper fry is  here





Group 2  23-29th June

Combo Meals: RujutaSushma
Cooking from Back Pack: 
AarthiArchanaCLPavaniPJSuma GandlurKalyaniGrishma
Cooking From Cookbook: 
NirmalaSrivalliKamalikaCrunchy snacks for Kids: NirmalaSrivalliKamalikaRegional Special: Jayasree
No Butter Bakes for diet:Gayathri KumarHariniJaneMonika

15 comments:

Aarthi said...

this looks truly wonderful

Unknown said...

Looks superb!!!!

Srivalli said...

Sabina, that's a new combo. Looks good..wifieta

harini-jaya said...

dal looks good (I don't use mushrooms)

jayasree said...

The combo sounds interesting...Loved the dal.

Anonymous said...

looks tempting. going to try it tonight

Suma Gandlur said...

Simple and comforting dal!

Archana Vivek said...

Lovely dish

Sin-A-Mon (Monika) said...

that looks like a great combo

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Kalyani said...

combo looks good, although I personally dont eat mushrooms..

Cheers
Kalyani
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Cool Lassi(e) said...

Yet another tempting combo! Yum!

Pavani said...

Yummy.. Both the dishes look comforting and delicious.

Padmajha said...

I love green gram kadaisal.Nice combo :)

Gayathri Kumar said...

Very tempting combination..

Rujuta said...

Lovely combo..Mushroom pepper fry looks great
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