Pulila Curry

This is another tastiest recipe. I got it recently from my mom. She used to make this often. Very simple to prepare. This is our nativity dish. You can use bengal gram instead of moong dal. But this will give great binding to this dish.

This goes well with white rice/idli/dosa.

Ingredients
Moong Dal – 1/2 cup

Sliced Green Chilli - 4

Chopped Drumstick – 2 (medium)
Chopped Eggplant/Brinjal – 2

Chopped Potato – 1

Chopped Onions – 1 (big)

Chopped Tomato – 1 (big)

Salt – to taste

Chilli Powder – 1 tsp

Coriander Powder – 1 ½ tsp  

(To Paste)

Grated Coconut – ½ cup

To Temper

Vengaya Vadagam – 1 tsp

Curry Leaves - few
Oil - 2 tsp  

Method
Soak moong dal for about 30 minutes. And pressure cooks it till it becomes mushy.

In a pan, heat oil. Add vengaya vadagam and saute it for few min. Add curry leaves.

Now add chopped onions and fry till it gets slight color changes. Then add chopped tomatoes and fry till it becomes mushy.

By meantime, in another vessel add the mashed dal with all other chopped vegetables, salt and required water.

After few min, then add chilli powder and coriander powder and close the lid. Keep cook until all the veggies cooked well.

Then add sauteed onions and tomatoes in it and keep cook for another five min on low flame.

Then add coconut paste and let it cook for only 2 min. Then switch off the flame.

Serve with hot steamed rice/idli/dosa…