Pacha Payaru / Paasi Payaru Sundal

A healthy and festival special dish. Paasi payaru sundal is served as neivedhiyam for Varalakshmi vratham, Navarathri, Vinayagar chathurthi and many other occasions.

Preparation Time: 5 min
Cooking Time: 15 min
Serves: 2

Ingredients:

1. Pacha payaru - ½ cup
2. Oil - 1 tbsp
3. Mustard - 1 tsp
4. Urad dhal - 1 tsp
5. Jeera - 1 tsp
6. Curry leaf - 1 sprig
7. Hing - a pinch
8. Red chili - 2
9. Coconut flakes - 3 tbsp
10. Salt - to taste

Preparation:

-   Soak pacha payaru for atleast 5 hrs .

Procedure:

1.  Pressure cook pacha payaru for 2 whistles with little salt. Filter excess water and set aside.

2.  Heat a medium sized pan with oil, then add mustard, urad dhal, jeera and allow it to sputter, Followed by curry leaf, hing, red chili.

3.  To this add cooked pacha payaru, coconut flakes and give a good stir. Adjust salt and serve hot.

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Adai

Ingredients:

• Arisi - ¼ cup
• Channa dhal - ¼ cup
• Pacha payaru - ¼ cup
• Thuvaram paruppu - ¼ cup
• Onion - 1 medium sized
• Green chilli - 3
• Cilantro
• Curry leaf
• Asafetida
• Pepper
• Ginger
• Fenugreek seeds
• Salt

 

Preparation:

Soak arisi channa dhal, pacha payaru, thuvaram paruppu separately for 3 hrs

 

Procedure:

1. Add the soaked ingredients along with onion, green chilli, cilantro, curry leaf, asafetida, pepper, ginger, fenugreek seeds, salt in a mixie and grind them into a coarse batter.
2. Heat a dosa tawa and grease it with oil
3. Pour the adai batter in dosa shape
4. When it is cooked on one side , flip it to the other side and cook well
5. Hot adai taste delicious with aviyal

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Pacha Payaru Curry

  Ingredients:

- pacha payaru - 1 cup
- Onion - 1 medium sized
- Tomato - 1 medium sized
- Tumeric powder - ¼ teaspoon
- Chilli powder - ½ teaspoon
- Corriander powder - 1 teaspoon
- Garam masala - ½ teaspoon
- Salt to taste

Procedure:

& Pressure cook pachapayaru with little salt.
& In a pan, heat oil and add onion and saute until it becomes soft
& Then add chilli powder, turmeric powder, salt
& Now add tomato and saute it for 3 min in medium flame
& when the tomato become mushy, add corriander powder and cooked pachapayaru
& Close the lid and cook for 2 min
& Then add garam masala, stir occasionaly and cook for 1 min
& Pachapayaru curry can be served for chapathi

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Ragi Dosa

Ragi is rich in proteins and minerals. Ragi has numerous health benefits like weight loss, strengthen bones, reduce the risk of diabetics, bring down cholesterol, excellent source of iron etc. Ragi dosa can be prepared with urad dhal (Ragi dosa with urad dhal) and ragi roti is another exciting dish.

Preparation Time: 20 min

Cooking Time: 20 min

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

• Ragi flour - 2 cups
• Small onion - Finely chopped - 1/2 cup
• Green chilli - 3
• Water - 1 1/2 cup
• Salt to taste
• Oil - 1 teaspoon
• Mustard - 1/4 teaspoon
• Urad dhal - 1/4 teaspoon
• Cummin seeds - 1/4 teaspoon
• Split channa dhal - 1/4 teaspoon
• Curry leaf - 4

Procedure:

1. Mix ragi flour with chopped onion, green chilli and salt
2. Add water to the mixture and mix well so that no lumps are formed
3. Now heat a pan and pour oil
4. When the oil is heat, add mustard and allow it to sputter 
5. Then add cummin seeds to sizzle and urad dhal and channa dhal
6. Saute them till they turn golden brown
7. Pour them into the batter and give a stir
8. This mixture will be like dosa batter consistency
9. Now heat dosa tawa in the stove in medium flame and apply little oil
10. Pour the ragi dosa batter in the pan
11. When one side of the dosa is cooked, it is turned the other side
12. Yummy ragi dosa are ready to serve

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