Ingredients:

• 1 cup – whole green moong beans
• 3 – Green chillies
• 1/2 tsp – chopped Ginger
• 10 – Curry leaves
• 2 – whole Red Chillies
• 1/2 cup – Curd
• 1/2 tsp – Turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp – Fenugreek seeds
• 1/2 tsp – Cumin seeds
• 1 tbsp – Ghee
• 1/4 tsp – asafetida
• 1 tbsp – Lemon juice
• 2 tbsp – fresh coriander
• 1/2 tsp – salt
• 1/3 tsp – Sugar

Method:

1. Wash and soak moong dal for at least 1 hour, chop green chillies.
2. Heat ghee in a pan on slow flame.
3. Now add fenugreek seeds, cumin and asafoetida.
4. When it start crackling, add green chillies and stir.
5. Add moong beans and 2 glasses of water and pressure cook up to 3 or 4 whistles or till cooked very well.
6. Open the pressure cooker and mash the dal well.
7. Add whisked curd, salt, sugar, turmeric, ginger, curry leaves, broken whole chilli pieces and approx. 2 or 2.5 glasses of water (it would be thin like sambar).
8. Mix well and cook on medium heat for 10 minutes.
9. Add lemon juice and fresh coriander.
10. Add a tsp of ghee while serving.
11. Recipe courtesy: Maayeka