Tomato dal (with moong dal or pesarapappu)

ingredients - 1

Ingredients:

Tomatoes - 2 - big sized
split golden moong dal - 1 cup - 50gms - 1 handful
musterd seeds - 1/2 tea spoon
jeera - 1/2 tea spoon
red chillis - 2
green chilis - 2

split golden moon dal or pearapappu

salt - as per taste
oil - 1 table spoon
turmeric - a pinch
hing or asfotodia - a pinch
curry leaves - few
coriander - for garnishng





Procedure:

step - 1

Boil moong dal, then mash it, add salt sufficient to dal only and keep it aside.

step -2

Now take deep pan and add oil.
Let the oil get heat and then add mustered seeds, jeera, hing, red chilli turmeric.
when the mustered seeds crackle, add curry leaves, green chillis, coriander,tomatoes, salt for tomatoes only and fry it for 3 min then close the lid and cook it until tomatoes get mashy.

step - 3

Once tomatoes get mashy, now add cooked moong dal, 1 cup water to it and cook for 3 mins.

step - 4

now take it into a serving bowl, garnish with coriander and serve hot with rice.

Dondakaya (tindora or kovakai) pakodi fry

Ingredients:

ingredients

Tindora - 200gms
besan or gram flour - 2 table spoons
corn flour - 2 table spoons
rice flour - 1 table spoon
ginger garlic paste - 1 spoon
red chilli powder - 1 table spoon
salt - for taste
oil - for deep frying

For tadka or talimpu:

Talimpu

chana dal - 1 tea spoon
urad dal - 1 tea spoon
musterd seeds - 1/2 table spoon
jeera - 1/2 table spoon
red chillis - 2
peanuts - one handful
hing or asfotodia - pinch
turmeric - pinch
curry leaves - few

Procedure:

step - 1

wash and wipe tindora and then cut into slits lengthwise.

step - 2

Then add besan, corn flour, rice flour, red chilli powder, salt, ginger garlic paste to tindora and mix well.
keep it aside for 20 minutes to get marinate.
Don't add water as by adding salt the vegetable will leave some water.
after 20 min if  the mixture is very dry then sprinkle very little water.

step - 3

Now heat the oil and drop this mixture into oil like pakoda.

step - 4

once the pakoda got golden brown color, remove it and put it in a plate on paper towel.

step - 5

Now take a pan put 2 spoons oil, let it get heat, then add chana dal, urad dal, musterd seeds, jeera, peanuts, tuemeric, hing to it.
once the talimpu got fried add curry leaves and fried pakoda to it and mix well.

step - 6

now remove the mixture from pan and tak it into a serving bowl and serve with sambar or rasam or pappu charu (mild sambar).