Green lentil sundal | lentil sundal is a healthy snack prepared with green lentils. Coconut gives a nice flavor to this sundal.
The highlight of gollu is the tasty sundal prepared during each day. My Amma says certain sundal is prepared on specific days but I randomly prepare Sundal based on the ingredients I see from my pantry. Day 2 of Navaratri. I forgot to soak any lentils for Sundal and was thinking about what to do. First I thought of preparing frozen peas sundal or corn Sundal but I didn’t have enough peas in stock. I started scanning for some options. I had green lentils which I got for making green lentil rice. Other than the rice I usually make dal using it. Never tried sundal. TMF needs some new trial either to feature or for bloopers recipe so decided to give it a chance. To my surprise, it turned out well. Ginger gave nice flavor along with coconut and asafoetida. If you are looking different sundal Green lentil sundal is a nice choice. It tastes great as a dry side dish as well with sambhar, rasam, etc. I have soaked the lentil and cooked it, instead, lentil can also be directly cooked but it takes a longer time to cook.
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Ingredients:
Green Lentil - 3/4 cup Salt - as needed To grind: Coconut - 1/4 cup Cumin Seed - 1/8 tsp Green Chilli - 1, medium size ( Adjust according to your taste) Ginger - 1/2 teaspoon (peeled and cut into pieces) To temper: Coconut oil - 1/2 tbsp Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp Urad Dal - 1 teaspoon (I used split one) Channa dal - 1 tsp Curry leaves - few Red Chillies - 1 (Adjust according to your spice level) Asafoetida/Hing - a generous pinch
How to make a green lentil sundal with step by step pictures:
Soak green lentil in Luke warm water for 1 hour and strain it In a pan on medium heat boil water (around 2 cups + 1/2 cup) with a little salt, once the water starts boiling add the green lentil, cook for 12-15 minutes or till the dal is soft when pressed with fingers (that ensures the dal is cooked), stir occasionally to prevent dal from sticking to the bottom of the pan Turn off the stove, wash it with cold water and strain the water and drizzle a drop of oil and mix gently
Grind the items listed under “to grind” into a coarse powder Add coconut oil to the pan and when oil is hot add the ingredients listed under “to temper” and let the mustard seed crackle Furthermore add cooked dal, a little salt ( as we have already added salt while cooking dal), and mix well; cook for a minute Add the ground mixture and turn down the flame to low cook for 3 minutes and turn off the stove. Serve hot. Great evening snack is ready:-)
