Green Moong Dhall Curry/ Pachai Payaru Curry

Ingredients:

  Whole moong dhall/ Pachai payaru – 1 cup

  Onion – 1

  Carrot –  small size 1

  Coconut -  2 tsp

  Green chilli – 3 chopped

  Mustard – 1 tsp

  Cumin seeds – 1 tsp

  Ajwin / Omam– ½ tsp

  Turmeric powder – 1tsp

  Chilli powder – as per taste

  Oil – 2 tbsp

  Salt

Method :

 1. One day itself soak the green moong dhall in water.Means tomorrow afternoon going to do means today morning itself soak it in water.

        2.  Night drain the water and set aside in a bowl. Use it next day.

    

       3.     Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds, as it spluttering starts, add ajwin, cumin seeds, and greenchilli to it.

       4.     After the spluttering stops, add onion and fry till it become brown colour.

        5.     Then add the whole moong dhall .

        6.     Add turmeric,chilli powder,salt in it.

        7.     Let the moong dhall fry for 5 minutes, add the carrot and fry for 2 minutes.

        8.     At last add coconut and fry. Now the moong dhall curry is ready to serve.

         Enjoy this Curry with rice and chapathi.

Instant Onion Puliyodharai

Ingredients :

Tamarind juice concentrated – 1 cup

Onion / small onion – 1/2 cup chopped

Green chilli – 4 chopped

Red chilli – 4

Curry leaves – little bit

Turmeric powder – 2 tsp

Chana dhall – 3 tbsp

Urid dhall – 2 tbsp

Mustard seeds – 1 tbsp

Salt

Sesame oil - 3 tbsp

Boiled rice – 2 cup

Method :

     1. Take a pan and heat oil. Add Mustard seeds, as it starts spluttering add chana dhall and urid dhall. When these dhall turns brown in colour, add green chilli and red chilli.

    2. When the green chilli splutters, add curry leaves and small onion and fry deeply till the onion becomes golden brown.

    3. Add the tamarind juice to this fried mixture and stir well.

    4. Add turmeric powder, Salt. Add sesame oil when required.

    5. If you want more chilli, add the chilli powder to this mixture. (optional step)

    6. Stir this mixture till it comes to the gravy consistency.

    7.At last add boiled rice to this mixture and serve hot.

Fried Rice

Ingredients :

    Finely Chopped fresh Vegetables – Carrot,beans,greenpeas,cabbage,capsicum( 1 ½ half cup)

   Onion – 2

   Red chilli sauce or Green chilli sauce – 2 tsp

   Soya sauce – 1 tsp

   Pepper powder – ½ tsp

  Cashews – 6 numbers

  Salt

  Ghee / Oil

  Boiled Basmati rice – 1 cup

Method :

1. In  low flame, heat ghee in a pan. Add onion. When the onion starts to get light brown, add the fresh chopped vegetables and fry till the vegetable get boil.
2.  At this stage add the green chilli sauce and soya sauce. Fry deeply.
3. Add the black pepper powder and fry.
4. Add the salt.
5. At last add the boiled basmati rice with this mixture and stir well so that vegetables can mix with rice well.
6. Fry cashew in ghee and add it to the fried rice.

         Optional : Without adding soya sauce and ghee also fried rice taste good. Instead of ghee add oil. 

         Ghee gives  good smell and flavour to this fried rice.