Green Gram Dal | Pesara Pappu Kura | Side Dish

A wonderful dal recipe with Green Gram / Pesara Pappu / Mung Beans with spices, onion & tomatoes. It’s so healthy and delicious side dish with roti/ Chapathi/ Plain piping hot white rice 🍚

Health Benefits of Green Gram:

• It can help to reduce high cholesterol levels 
• It contains antioxidants that fights with cancer development 
• It can help to lower high blood pressure 
• It is rich in nutrients such as magnesium, manganese , potassium, folate, copper, zinc
• Vitamins : B1, B6, C & K
• High in protein and dietary fiber 

Today, I prepared South Indian style dal variety with beautiful mung beans, I hope you like it

Let’s start with Ingredients and follows Procedure

Ingredients:

• Green Gram / Pesearapappu – 120 gms – wash & soak 15 mins
• Onion –  1 medium – 1 cup – diced
• Tomatoes – 2 medium – finely chopped
• Red chilly powder – 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
• Salt – 2 tsp
• Coriander powder – 1 tsp
• Green chillies – 2 – chopped
• Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
• Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
• Curry leaves – 8
• Garlic cloves – peeled off – chopped
• Oil – 1 tb sp

Procedure:

Pre-preparation:

• Wash green gram twice under running water
• Soak them in a bowl for 15 mins
• Add them in pressure cooker with 1/2 tsp salt, 400 ml water & 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
• Let it cook over medium heat and turnoff heat after 3 whistles
• Let the pressure goes off…Open lid and keep it aside

Process of making Green Gram dal:

• Heat sauce pan over medium heat
• Add oil, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves and garlic
• Saute a minute and add chopped onion, green chillies
• Saute 3 mins and add tomatoes
• Mix well & cover with lid.. Cook 5 mins and add salt, red chilly powder, coriander powder and turmeric powder
• Mix well and cover with lid for 2 mins
• Mix well and add cooked green gram along with tamarind extract and 500 ml water
• Mix well and cook on low to medium heat for 5 mins
• Turn off heat and serve with roti / rice 🍚
• Happy Cooking and have a happy day 🙂

Step by step process shown below with pictures:

Note:

• You can use any lentils instead of green gram
• I used canola oil, you can use any cooking oil like sunflower oil/ vegetable oil

You may also like my other Lentils Dal recipes:

• Menthi Akku pappu
• Potlakaya Kura
• Sorakaya Pappu 👌/ Split yellow gram Dal With Bottle Gourd
• Dal Makhani | Restaurant style | Side Dish

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