Required Ingredients:
Toor dal: 1 cup
Spinach: 1 bunch
Green Chilies: 4-5
Onion: 1
Tamarind: small marble sized
Turmeric: 1/4 tsp
Salt: To taste
For seasoning:
Mustard Seeds: 1 tsp
Cumin: 1tsp
Urad adal: 1tsp
Chenna dal: 1tsp
Curry leaves: 5-6
Red chilies (dry): 2-3
Garlic: 2 cloves cut into small pieces
Method:
•Wash and drain the toor dal.
•Wash and cut the spinach.
•Take toor dal, spinach, green chilies, tamarind and half onion in a pressure cooker and cook until the dal reaches fall apart stage.Usually takes about 10 to 15 minutes in a pressure cooker.
•Once the valve pressure is released, remove the lid and add mash the dal to soft consistency with a pappu gutti (wooden masher).
•Add salt, tamarind and turmeric to the mashed dal and let it cook till it reaches the required consistency.
•Then do the seasoning with Mustard Seeds, Cumin, Urad dal, Chenna dal, Curry leaves, Red chilies, Garlic. After these seeds splutter add the remaining onion to it.
•After the onions turn golden brown, add the seasoning into pappu.

Enjoy the tasty palakura pappu with rice and a dollop of ghee!!!
1 comment:
excellent recipe-tried it out today-came out very well! You should post more recipes...
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