GREEN PEAS SUNDAL

 Sundal is  a simple South Indian salad made with different legumes like White chickpeas, black chickpeas, white watana, green watan, green gram etc.  It  is a dry subzi made especially for Nav Rathri and given to the ladies and children who visit the Golu.

The dried grams are  soaked in water for around 6-8 hours and pressure cooked and tempered with mustard seeds, urid dal, curry leaves and garnished with grated coconut and green chilli mix. This can be served as a side dish or can be had as a snack item with chopped onions, tomatoes on top of it.

Let us see how to cook the same.

Ingredients:

250 gms Green peas dried.

Turmeric powder

Salt

2-3 tbsp grated coconut

1 green chilli

1 small piece ginger chopped finely.

Tempering

1 tsp mustard seeds

1 tsp urid dal

2-3 pieces of red chilli

Curry leaves

A pinch of asafetida

1.        Wash and soak the green peas for 6-8 hours.

2.       Cook them directly with  turmeric powder and salt, drain the excess water and keep aside. Ensure that it is not overcooked.

3.       Heat oil in a kadai, add mustard seeds, urid dal, curry leaves, asafetida, red chilli when it is done add the cooked green peas in it. Mix well. 

4.       Pulse the green chilli, coconut and ginger and mix with the green peas.

Serve hot.

Serves 3-4

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