Tomato Dal (tomato papu)

Ingredients :

1. 1 Cup Toor dal (kandi papu)
2. 3 Cups Water
3. 1 Onion finely chopped
4. 4 Slit Green Chilies
5. 1 Big Tomato finely chopped
6. 1 Cup Tamarind juice
7. 1/4 tbsp Turmeric powder
8. 1 tbsp chili powder
9. 2 red chilies
10. 1/4 tbsp Cumin seeds
11.1/4 tbsp Mustard seeds
12. 1 smashed garlic clove
13. 6-8 Curry Leaves
14. 4 tbsp Oil
15. Salt

Method :

Take 1 cup of toor dal in pressure cooker and wash it.
Add 3 cup of water, turmeric powder, chili powder, salt and sliced onions, chilies, tomatos, cover the lid and keep it for 3 pressures whistles and turn off the heat.
Remove the lid and mix everything.
Now take another vessel for seasoning.
Heat the oil, add the red chilies, mustard seeds, cumin seeds once after popping add the smashed garlic and stir until they turn light brown and then add the curry leaves.
Just transfer the cooked dal in it, and boil it for 10 mins on medium heat.stir in between while boiling.

Turn off the heat once its is boiled.

Cucumber / Dosakaya Curry

Ingredients :
1. 2 big Cucumber/ Dosakaya-(peel it and cut into small pieces)
2. 1 Onion finely chopped
3. 4 slit Green Chilies
4. 1 Big Tomato finely chopped
5. 6-8Curry Leaves
7. 1 Red chili
8. 1 tbsp Ginger Garlic Past
9. 1/4 tbsp Cumin Seeds
10. 1/4 tbsp Mustard Seeds
11. 2 pinches of Turmeric Powder
12. 1 tbsp Chili Powder
13. Salt

Method :

Heat the Oil in a vessel.
Add red chili, cumin seeds, mustard seeds after popping add green chilies, onions and stir until they turn soft and transparent, now add ginger garlic paste, curry leaves and turmeric powder and stir.
Then add the cucumber(dosakaya) pieces and tomato pieces then stir and cover the lid for 10-15 minutes until they boil and become soft and well cooked.
Remove the lid, add chili powder and salt stir for 1 minute and turn off the heat.

Upma



Ingredients :

1. 1 Cup Upma Rava/ Sooji
2. 1/2 tbsp chana dal/ split chickpeas
3. 1/2 tbsp Mustard seeds
4. 1 Slit Green Chili
5. 1/2 Onion finely chopped
6. Ginger (1/8 th tbsp chopped)
7. 6-8 Curry Leaves
8. 2 Cups Water
9. 2 tbsp Oil
10. Salt

Method

Heat the oil in vessel
Add Mustard seeds once they pop, add chana dal/ split chickpeas. once the chana dal turns light brown then add the sliced green chilies, onions, ginger and curry leaves and stir until the onion become soft and transparent.
Now add 2 cups of water, then add salt and leave it for boiling on medium heat.
Add upma Rava/ sooji into the boiling water slowly while stirring it with cooking stick.
After adding Upma rava/ sooji reduce the heat and cover the lid for 2 mins and then turn off the heat and mix the upma up & down.

*Note : When you add salt in water see to it water should taste little salty.