Sandhiya's Cookbook: Peas Pulav & Moong dal

Peas Pulav is very simple dish and also very tasty.

Ingredients
Basumathi Rice - 1 cup
Frozen Peas - 3/4 cup

Onion(chopped) - 1

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Green chili(slit) - 2 (adjust to your taste )
Mint & Coriander leaves - handful
Garam masala - 1 tsp
Cloves - 2 nos
Cinnamon - small piece
Cardamom - 1 no
Ghee - 3 tbsp
Water - 11/2 cup
Salt

Procedure

Soak the rice for 30 mins.Heat the ghee in a cooker and add cloves,cinnamon ,cardamom & saute for 30 sec

Then add onions & slitted green chili,once onion become translucent add ginger garlic paste and saute for 1 min.

After that add peas(if you use the regular one,soak it overnight) and saute it and then add rice and mix it well.

Then add water,coriander & mint leaves, salt & garam masala.Mix it well and close the lid.

Cook it for 3 whistle.Peas Pulav is ready.

Moog Dal Recipe

Ingredients

Moong Dal - 100gms

Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp

Green chili(slit) -1

Pearl Onion - 5 nos(chopped roughly)

Tomato - 1(medium,chopped)

Turmeric powder - pinch

Red chili powder - 1/2 tsp

Coriander leaves - few

Salt

To Temper

Oil - 1 tbsp

Mustard & urad dal - 1 tsp

Curry leaves -few

Procedure

Put dal, chili,asafoetida,onion, tomato in a pressure cooker . Add enough water and cook it for 3 whistle.

In a sauce pan tempering the ingredients listed under "To Temper" , then add the cooked dal.

Once it comes to boil add the tumeric,chili powder and salt.

After the raw smell goes off,add the coriander leaves and switch off the flame.

Simple but tasty dal is ready.Serve this Moog Dal as the side dish for peas pulav,dosa,idly or even chapathi.

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

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