Friday, April 18, 2008

RIDGE GUARD DAL / BEERAKAYA PAPPU




servings :4 adults


INGREDIENTS REQUIRED :


Toordal : 1 small tumbler
ridge guard : 1
onion : 1
green chilly : 2
tamarind : 1 blue berry sized
oil: 2tspns
urad dal, cumin seeds, mustard seeds : 1/2 tspn altogether
red chilly :2
curry leaves :10
garlic cloves :5
methi powder : little
salt : 2tspns
turmeric :1/4tspn
chillypowder : 1tspn
coriander leaves : 10 strings



PREPARATION :

  • Wash toordal and pour water init to a level more than dal level.
  • Peel the skin of ridge guard and cut into cubes, cut onions and greenchilly,
  • In a bowl take chopped onion, ridgeguard, greenchillies,washed tamarind.
  • Now in a cooker boil dal and vegetables

  • Heat a pan add oil, urad dal, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, red chilly, crushed garlic, curry leaves, methi powder, asafoetida.

  • Now add salt, chillypowder, turmeric.(adding spices in oil gives good taste ,ofcourse they shouldnt be burned)

  • Now add dal and coriander leaves. if required add little water. Boil for 5 mins and off the stove.

  • ur tasty ridge guard dal is ready to serve with rice/ chapathi.

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URS ,

PREETHI

5 Comments:

  1. Sachin said...
    Hi preethi,

    This dal sounds so yummy.. here we get only 25% of vegetables we get in India and beerakaya is one of them. I never tried combining it with my favorite, i.e. Dal, this dish sounds gerat.. thank you .. will definately try next time.

    Sachin
    MY WORLD OF RECIPES said...
    Hi sachin,
    Surely try it & enjoy it.
    bye,
    preethi ram.
    Anonymous said...
    Just one word of caution, taste the ridge guard for bitterness before adding to dal. A bitter ridge guard would spoil the whole recipe.
    MY WORLD OF RECIPES said...
    hi unknown , wat u said is true if we dont check the bitterness of ridgegourd it will spoil our dish . I hope u had a bad experience with it .Anyway thanx for sharing ur expertise and ur bitter experience with ridgegourd ,hahaha (just kidding).

    with cheers,
    Preethi.
    Anonymous said...
    hey preethi,
    wat happened.. not posting any recipes??

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