Green gram Gravy Recipe – Paasi/Pachai payaru Masiyal

This is a Coimbatore special one. A simple recipe that mixes that we want to have in a healthy food, especially with the criteria by using less oil yet a tasty dish. A sure shot with the kids when mixed with hot rice and ghee. The aroma and the taste will make the kids as much of quantity of green gram dal (paasi /pachai payaru) as you would want them to consume.

Here goes the recipe.

Ingredients

Green gram dal – 1 cup

Garlic – 10 pods

Turmeric powder – ½ teaspoon

Jeera/Cumin seeds – 2 teaspoons

Coriander seeds – 2 teaspoons (this can be a little lesser than the jeera seeds)

Onion (small) – 10-15 shallots

Green chilli – 2 or 3 (as per your taste)

Salt- as needed

Oil – for tampering

Method

  1. Pressure cook green gram dal with turmeric powder and garlic. It must be well cooked to be able to be mashed. Mash the cooked dal.
  2. Grind the coriander seeds and jeera seeds, coarsely and keep it aside.
  3. Heat oil in a kadai, add finely chopped shallots and green chillies and cook them until the onion is well cooked and appear translucent.
  4. Add the ground powder and cook till the raw smell goes off.
  5. Now, add the cooked dal and salt. Cook them all for 5- 10 minutes.
  6. The tasty mashed Dal Gravy recipe is ready.

PS:  1. Use little or just the required amount of water while cooking the green gram, so that the nutrients are wasted when we drain the water.

  1. You can also tamper with mustard seeds and curry leaves before cooking onions and chillies.Using sprouted green gram would be great.
  2. Using sprouted green gram would be great.