Plain yellow dal or dal tadka is the most requested recipes in here and it forms an important part of Onam Sadya, forming the first course of the meal or sadya. I had posted the basic dal recipe with toor dal a while back. I also make this with yellow moong dal (splite green beans) when I run out of toor dal and it gives a very different tasting basic dal for your rice.
In Kerala, or atleast the parts that I am from, moong dal is usually preferred over toor dal. We make a curry with moong dal, any squash or cucumber we can get our hands on and also add coconut (but of course!). Oh wait, I actually have a recipe in here somewhere. Oh yes, here it is. Cherupayar Vellarikka Curry – yellow moong dal cooked with cucumber.
Yellow Moong Dal Tadka / Cherupayar Parippu CurryServes: 4What I Used:Yellow moong dal / split green bean / cherupayar – 1 cupGreen chillies – 2, splitTomato – 1, chopped (optional)Turmeric powder – 1 pinchSalt – to tasteFor tempering:Oil – 1 tbspMustard seeds – 1/2 tspJeera / jeerakam – 1 tspGinger – 1/2 tsp, gratedRed chillies – 2, torn into halvesCurry leaves – a fewHing / asafoetida / kaayam – a pinch (optional)How to make Moong Dal Tadka:1. Cook the dal in 4 cups water until soft or pressure cook for 3 whistles with turmeric, green chillies and tomato (if using). Let it cool.2. Heat oil in a pan and add the ingredients for tempering. When the mustard seeds start popping and the red chillies start to change colour, add the cooked dal to this and mix well. Add salt.
what if you do not have a pressure cooker? How long should you boil the lentils?
The pictures are lovely as usual. Really healthy comforting food.
Even i prefer Moong dal in my cooking more than toor dal…I love the simple Moong dal wid Tadka..Real comfort food…
Yes, we usually don't make tadka with yellow moong dal either but I recently tried this when I was out of toor dal and it tasted really good 🙂
We use to call this as tiyya pappu I do no y that name ha ha. drooling over your pic. yummy entry.
I searched this post up and down 20 times for an accompanying rice dish..couldn't find it..Strange no?? So assuming that you are waiting for my famous secret LOTUS ROOT PECAN RICE dish to go with this yummy dal..
The curry leaf pic is awesome…we get a few dehydrated leaves in a ziploc bag here…so jealous of u now…
Oh, that moong dal looks so smooth and creamy, my mouth is watering! Do you ever put vegetables in your moong dal? I look to, for extra nutrition and also flavour. I have some pictures on my blog if you are interested: http://mangosoup.blogspot.com/2009/08/courgette-and-tomato-moong-dal.html
Oh, that moong dal looks so smooth and creamy, my mouth is watering! Do you ever put vegetables in your moong dal? I look to, for extra nutrition and also flavour. I have some pictures on my blog if you are interested: http://mangosoup.blogspot.com/2009/08/courgette-and-tomato-moong-dal.html
It seems simple Moong ki Dal recipe with yellow Moong ki dal. In spite of, it seems much delicious. I am going to cook it from your method once.
This is ultimate comfort food!
I too prefer moong daal to toor daal in plain daal recipes, must be a mallu thing! 🙂
Awesome clicks. You take a simple dal and make it drool worthy! Just great! Love it…
Moong daal is high on my list too.. unlike toor daal it does not cause acidity!
I adore moong dal, too! In fact, it is my go to dal of choice and I use it in everything. This curry looks so yummy, Nags. Wish I could get such awesome curry leaves here… Am trying to grow some. We'll see how it goes! 🙂
its nice replacement to toor dal tadka!!
Nice blog and nice pictures!!
Lovely click.Jes the click makes it all the more tempting.Wonderful dal!
i generally prefer yellow moong dal to toor dal..even in sambar i use yellow moong dal only.
SJ – yes we get very fresh greens here. the weather is identical to south india so everything that grows there, grows here too! i actually have a curry leaves plant (these stalks in the pic are from the market though) and i have sown some green chilly seeds and keeping fingers crossed. there is no sunlight in my apartment and no balcony. we are on the 6th floor, thats the huge downside.
Delicious dhal…I am jealous looking at ther curry leaves. It is hard to find good ones here.
wow!lovely dal tadka …try this soon ..hey My next post is also ..Dal ..do visit me 😀
Lovely cherupayar dal! My all time favourite!
I searched this post up and down 20 times for an accompanying rice dish..couldn't find it..Strange no?? So assuming that you are waiting for my famous secret LOTUS ROOT PECAN RICE dish to go with this yummy dal..
The curry leaf pic is awesome…we get a few dehydrated leaves in a ziploc bag here…so jealous of u now…
I prefer mung to toor, but I have grown to like the (not love) toor dal becoz of my hubby. I love the simple tarka dals…. ( I dry roast the mung on a tawa which brings out the strong flavor in it.. bong way:-))
Oh wow dal in any form is comforting….looks yum…
We use to call this as tiyya pappu I do no y that name ha ha. drooling over your pic. yummy entry.
Me:like dal, J: puke, Me:sigh.
Wow, those curry leaves look so fresh, we never get like that here…
quick and comfort dal
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Dal looks delicious..perfect comfort food for me with hot steaming rice 🙂
Nags…cherupayaru is my all time favorite..never made like this..surely i will try this.. 🙂
I too make this, our fav too. The pictures are lovely as usual. Really healthy comforting food.
Even i prefer Moong dal in my cooking more than toor dal…I love the simple Moong dal wid Tadka..Real comfort food…
Even I made this yesterday in the same way:) I just love this with basmati rice :)Looks great!
wow the dal looks delicious …. nice pictures……
Yes, we usually don't make tadka with yellow moong dal either but I recently tried this when I was out of toor dal and it tasted really good 🙂