With a lot of green gram left in my kitchen and not much else, I was wondering what to do with it. It was a long time since I made kichidi. That's when this healthy, wholesome dinner idea presented itself, and I prepared it in just minutes.
Ingredients (serves 2):
carrot+cabbage+peas - 1 cup, chopped
green chillies - 3
curry leaves - a twig
cumin seeds - 1 tsp
turmeric powder - a pinch
lemon juice - 1 tbsp
oil - 1 tbsp
salt - 1 tsp (adjust according to taste)
Method:
Heat oil. Add cumin seeds, curry leaves and green chillies. and fry for a minute. Add washed green gram, vegetables, turmeric powder and salt. Pressure cook with 3 cups of water till done (do not overcook). Add lemon juice and serve hot.
Ingredients:
radish - 1 (peeled and sliced)
split yellow pigeon peas (toor dal) - 1/2 cup
sambar powder - 2 tsp
tamarind paste - 1 tbsp
turmeric powder - a pinch
red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp (optional, depending on how spicy your sambar powder is!)
salt - 1 tsp (adjust to taste)
clarified butter (ghee) - 1 tbsp
mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
black gram - 1/2 tsp
curry leaves - 1 stalk
Method:
Pressure cook pigeon peas with turmeric powder. Heat half the ghee and add curry leaves. Then add cleaned, peeled, sliced radish, tamarind paste, salt, sambar powder and red chilly powder. Fry till cooked and add prepared pigeon peas. Boil for a few more minutes. In the remaining ghee, fry mustard seeds and black gram. When it splutters, add to sambar and cover immediately. Serve hot with rice, idly, dosa, etc.
Notes:
Sambar powder might be a quicker alternative, but adding freshly roasted and wet-ground mixture of a teaspoon each of the bengal gram, black gram, coriander seeds, 1/4 tsp of fenugreek seeds, 3 red chillies and 2 tbsp coconut powder adds a special taste to the sambar.
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