Lemon dal (nimmakai pappu)
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ½ | cup | Tur gram; (toor or toovar dal) |
| ½ | large | Lemon |
| 1 | pinch | Turmeric |
| large | Piece of ginger | |
| 2 | Green chillies | |
| 1 | Stem curry leaves | |
| 1 | tablespoon | Oil |
| ½ | teaspoon | Peeled broken black gram dal; (urad dal) |
| ½ | teaspoon | Black mustard seeds |
| 1 | Red chilli | |
| 1 | pinch | Asafoetida |
| Salt; to taste | ||
Directions
1. Extract lemon juice.
2. Peel the ginger and chop finely. Chop the green chillies finely. Clean and pluck curry leaves.
3. Boil the tur gram well.
4. Add salt and turmeric and cook. Remove when thick. Add lemon juice, green chillies, curry leaves and ginger.
5. Break red chillie into pieces. Fry black gram, mustard seeds, red chilli and asafoetida. Add to dal as seasoning.
Recipe by: Delicious Recipes From Andhra by Karuna Posted to recipelu-digest by Sharon Raghavachary <schary@...> on Feb 25, 1998