pesara pappu kattu (Green gram dal)

Ingredients

• Green gram dal       1 cup
• Salt to taste
• Turmeric Powder    1 pinch

For seasonings

• Mustard seeds        1/ 4 tsp 
• Urad Dal                 1/2 tsp 
• Bengal gram  Dal     1 tsp
• Red chili 
• Green chili              3 no.s   
• Curry leaves 
• Oil                          3tsp
• Garlic cloves        3
• Ginger crushed     small piece 

Procedure

1. Take green gram dal, salt, turmeric powder and two cups of water in a pressure cooker.
2.  Cook dal for 1 whistle.
3.  Heat oil in a pan and seasoning with above ingredients. 
4. Add cooked dal, mix well and cook for five minutes on low flame. 
5. Serve with rice or roti.

Baby Spinach Dal

Ingredients

• Baby spinach        1 bunch
• Red gram dal        1 cup
• Tomato pieces      1 cup
• Onion pieces         1cup
• Tamarind pulp       1 \4 cup
• Turmeric powder  1 pinch
• salt to taste

Seasoning:

•  Mustard seeds      1 tsp
•  Cumin seeds         1/2 tsp
•  Green chillies        2
•  Oil                       1 tsp
• Garlic cloves          4-5

Procedure

1. Cook dal in pressure cooker.  Mesh it.
2. Heat oil in a thick bottom vessel and sesoning with mustard seeds cumin seeds green chiilli and garlic cloves. Add baby spinach and dal, tomato, salt and turmeric powder to the seasoning. 
3. Mix well and cook till baby spinach becomes soft in low flame.
4. Serve with rice or roti.

Dal Fry

Ingredients:

• Red gram dal                            1 cup
• Onion (cut into small pieces )     1 big
• Red chillie                                  2
• Coriander powder                     1/2 tsp
• Cumin powder                           1\4 tsp
• Red chillie powder                     1/2 tsp
• oil                                              1 tsp
• Salt to taste

Procedure:

1. Wash dal and take it in a pressure cooker, cook it by adding three glasses of water (for 3 whistles)
2. Mash it gently. keep it aside.
3. Heat oil in a thick bottom pan and add red chili, fry it for a while.
4. Add onions and salt, Fry onion pieces till onion colour changes into little brown.
5. Add coriander powder, cumin powder, turmeric powder and red chili powder.mix well.
6. Add dal and cook for 5 minutes. Dal fry is redy to eat.
7. Serve hot with rice or roti.

Bottle gourd dal (aanapakaya kandhipappu )

Ingredients:

• Red Gram dal        
• ( Kandhi pappu)              1/2 cup
• Bottle gourd small pieces
• ( Peal and cut }               1 cup 
• Turmeric                         1 pinch
• Tamarind  Juice               3 tsp
• Tomato (cut into pieces)  1                      
• Salt to taste

For seasoning

• Mustard seeds                 ½  spoon
• Cumin seeds                    ¼  tsp
• Green chili                        4
• Red chilli                          2
• Curry leaves
• Oil                                   1tsp

Procedure        

                          

1. Take red gram dal and bottle gourd pieces, tomato pieces in a pressure cooker and add 3 cups of water. 
2. Cook it for 2 whistles. Allow cooker to cool and remove cooker lid. Mesh dal gently.
3. Add salt and turmeric powder and tamarind juice, mix well and cook it for 5 minutes.
4. Seasoning the dal with above ingredients.
5. Serve with Rice or  Roti.