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Tomato Pappu [Tomato Dal] 


I think this is the simplest yet tastiest of all the dal's. This with avakayi {mango pickle} is yummy... !!! :)

Ingredients


Chana dal                    1 cup
Tomatoes                     2 small ones
Green Chillies               3
Red chilli powder
Turmeric
Corrainder
Salt
Water                           2 cups

Popu :


Urad dal                     1tsp
Mustard                      1tsp
Jeera                           1tsp 
Oil                               2tsp
Curry leaves
Asafoetida

Method


Cooking time: 20 min
Flame: medium

1. Wash 1 cup of chana dal and keep it in a dish. (This is the bowl you intend to keep to cook the dal)
2. In that dish, add finely chopped tomatoes and green chillies.
3. Add 2 cups of water and place it in the pressure cooker.
4. After 3 whistles(2 in low flame and 1 in high), switch off the stove. 
5. Let the cooker cool.(You can test it by trying to remove the whistle)
6. Once you are able to remove the whistle, add salt , red chilli powder and a pinch of turmeric and mix slightly.
7. Now, in a frying pan, add oil. Then add urad dal. 
8. When the urad dal turn slightly brown, add mustard seeds and jeera.
9. Then add curry leaves and asafoetida.
10. Pour the contents in the frying pan into the dal dish.
11. Now place the dal dish on the stove for 5 min and switch off the stove.
12. Garnish it with corriander.

And "yummy yummy dal ready!!!!!!!!!!"

Note:

1. Pre-frying the chana dal before washing them makes the dal even more tasty.
2. Its better to make it in the pressure cooker or on the stove directly than in the micorwave.
3. Cutting the green chilles vertically and then adding it in the popu is also good.(Its nice to bite a crunchy green chilli in this pappu). But make sure you close the frying pan with a lid when you do this.  :)
4. It is best when served with rice, avakayi, appadam and vodiyaalu.... (oo..my mouth is watering!! yummy)