Pachaipayaru sundal | Pasipayaru sundal | Green moong sundal P
Pachaipayaru sundal, also called as pasipayaru/greendal/green moong sundal is a protein-rich stirfry prasadam prepared for festivals like Navratri.
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 1 cup green moong (pasipayaru/pachaipayaru)
- 1 tbsp oil
- ½ tsp mustard
- ½ tsp jeera
- 1 tsp gram dal
- 1 tsp urad dal
- ½ tsp hing
- 1 big onion
- 1 tsp ginger (chopped)
- 2 green chillies
- 2 red chillies
- Few curry leaves
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup grated coconut
- 1 tsp lemon juice
Instructions
Preparation:
- Wash and soak pachaipayaru for 15mins.
- Pressure cook with enough water up to 3 whistles.
- Grate coconut
- Chop onion.
Recipe to make pachaipayaru sundal:
- Heat oil in a pan, add mustard and jeera seeds.
- Add gram and whole urad dals. Let them come to golden brown color.
- Now add chopped onions, curry leaves. Fry onions to a transparent state.
- Also add chopped ginger, green chilli, red chillies and mix with onions.
- Add little turmeric powder and required salt.
- Drain water from cooked green moong and add it in the pan.
- Mix together and saute for 2minutes until extra water is absorbed well.
- Now add grated coconut and mix well.
- Finally, add lemon juice. Adding lemon juice is optional to give a nice tangy taste to the sundal. You can opt out if you don’t like.
- Serve as snack or offer as prasadam to god.
Notes
Tips: 1. Ginger is to aid good digestion when consuming legumes. You can add hing in place of ginger if you like. 2. Usually, this green gram does not need overnight soaking. Just 15 to 30mins of soaking is enough to cook the dal.
Nutrition
Calories: 100kcal
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