2008-02-04

Green Gram curry (Payaru curry)

Another vegetarian curry that is very tasty along with rice. This was another favourite curry for me because of the easiness to prepare and the taste of it. Here we go with the ingredients:

Green gram daal ½ cup. (cup of 250ml).

Onion 1 medium size
Tomato 1 medium size
Green chilli 1 medium size
Potato 1 small size
Turmeric powder ½ table spoon
Chilli powder ¼ table spoon
Coriander powder 1 table spoon.

Salt ½ tea spoon.
Mustard seeds 1 teaspoon
Coconut oil 2 table spoon
Curry leaves 5-6
Coriander leave 5-6

Cut the onion into 2 half and then make slices. Similarly cut the tomato and potato. Cut the green chilli into 2 parts vertically.
Wash the daal well and transfer it to the pressure cooker. Add tomato, onion, potato and spices to the cooker and add 2 glasses of water and add salt to it. Pressure cook the contents for about 5-7 minutes or till 3 whistle in a medium flame. Then turn off the stove and wait till the pressure goes off naturally.
Heat the oil in a pan and add mustard seeds to it. Wait till it stops spluttering. Add the curry leaves to it and the pressure cooked contents. Wait till the daal is completely cooked and you have a thick gravy in the pan.
Add the coriander leaves on top of the curry, cover it, switch off the stove and wait for 5 minutes. Have your delicious green gram curry.

Tips:
While cooking in the pan, don't cover it if you find the water in excess after the pressure cook. On the other hand, close the pan if you find the daal is not cooked well. If you find the water is less and daal is not cooked well then add
½ cup of water and cook it covered.

1 comment:

Good Shepherd said...

aha kalakkan... valare eshtapettu..