Green Moong Dal Recipe With Coconut | Green Gram Curry For Chapathi (Payaru)
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Serves: 2 People
 
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Ingredients
  • Green Moong Dal - 50g
  • Water - 400ml + 100ml
  • Thin coconut milk - 200ml
  • Small onion - 4 to 6
  • Red chili - 2 or 3
  • Garlic cloves - 2 or 3
  • Mustard seeds - ¼ teaspoon
  • Turmeric powder - ¼ teaspoon
  • Fennel seeds - ¼ teaspoon
  • Curry leaves - Few
  • Salt - As you need
  • Cooking oil - As you need
Instructions
  1. Take a bowl and add Green Moong Dal/Green Gram/Payaru(Tamil). Add 400ml water and leave it to soak overnight.
  2. Next day drain the water and rinse the green moong dal thoroughly.
  3. Now add the soaked green moong dal and 100ml of water in a pressure cooker. Add some salt as well. Cook this until the pressure cooker whistles 4 or 5 times. (Refer Note 1)
  4. Get ready with crushed garlic cloves, chopped onions, sliced red chilies, curry leaves, turmeric powder, fennel seeds, mustard seeds, and salt. (Refer Note 2)
  5. Extract thin coconut milk from grated coconut. (Refer Note 3)
  6. Now place the cooking pan on the stove and add the boiled green moong dal. Mash it with the spoon, but don’t mash it too much.
  7. Add turmeric powder and thin milk. Mix everything well.
  8. Now switch on the stove and cook covered under the high flame for 2 or 3 minutes.
  9. Take off this curry in a bowl and add the crushed garlic cloves in it. Mix it well and keep aside for the final preparation.
  10. Heat the oil in cooking pan and add mustard seeds. Let it splutter.
  11. Add the onions and sauté until it gets softened.
  12. Now add red chilies, curry leaves, and fennel seeds. Stir and cook until the onion turns into golden color.
  13. Now add the cooked green moong dal curry.
  14. Mix everything well and taste it. Add salt if needed.
  15. Serve and enjoy this Sri Lankan style simple green moong dal recipe with coconut milk.
Notes
Note 1: The number of whistles may vary. I always cook the green moong dal till 4 whistles.

Note 2: I used small onions. But you can use large onion if you want. Also, if you don’t like even a little spiciness, you can avoid red chilies.

Note 3: If it is hard to find grated coconut, you can use coconut milk powder or bottled coconut milk.
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