Today’s recipe is paruppu curry (dal curry)

• Ingredients
  • 1/4 cup thoor dal
  • 1/4 cup green gram dal
  • 6 shallots
  • 3 garlic pods
  • 1 /2 tsp turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • 2 green chilies
  • 1/4 cup grated coconut
  • salt to taste
• For seasoning
  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
  • 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
  • 2 shallots (cut it into small pieces)
  • 2 red chilies
  • curry leaf

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How to make

• Take a pressure cooker and add the dals
• Dry roast the dals for few minutes and add 2.5 cups of water
• Then add the shallots, garlic pods and turmeric powder
• Close the pressure cooker lid and keep it in the medium flame
• Wait for two whistles and switch off the stove

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• In the mean time, grind the coconut, green chilies and cumin seeds into a coarse mixture (please do not make a smooth paste)

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• Once the pressure is released, open the cooker and add the coconut mixture into the dal and cook it for another 5 minutes without closing the cooker
• Take a small frying pan, add the oil and mustard seeds
• Once the mustard seeds start crackling, add the remaining seasoning items to it.
  

• Then pour the seasoning on the dal curry in the cooker
• Now it is ready to serve with rice