Moong dal with coconut milk (moong dal soup)

• Servings: 2
• Preparation time: 10 minutes.
• Boiling time: 6-7 minutes.
• Cooking time: 9-10 minutes.
• Seasoning time: 2 minutes.
• Total time: 29 minutes.

you can serve this as a soup or as dal; Mung dal is healthiest among all dal as it does not cause gas trouble unlike other dal.

It is very easy to digest and great source of protein like other dal.

Coconut milk adds a great flavour, coconut is very good source of calcium.

Ingredients:

• Moong Dal (Mung/ Green gram dal): 50 gm.
• Fresh Coconut: half
• Ginger: 1” piece
• Tomato: 1 no. (Medium size)
• Green chilli: 1-2 no.
• Salt: half teaspoon
• Turmeric powder: ¼ teaspoon
• Curry leaves: 8-10 no.

For seasoning:

• Ghee: 1 teaspoon
• Cumin seed: half teaspoon
• Mustard seed: 1 pinch
• Asafoetida: 1 pinch

Preparation:

1. Chop tomato, green chilli and ginger into small pieces. Keep aside.
2. Scarp only white portion of coconut through coconut scraper; take scraped coconut into grinding jar, add 1 cup of water, grind well as chutney, Strain the chutney with fine strainer, keep this milk aside.

Method:

1. Take a pressure cooker; put dal,  salt, half teaspoon turmeric powder add 2-3 cups of water; place cooker on high flame, bring to full cooking pressure. Reduce to lower flame, cook for about 2-3 minutes, allow cooker to cool. dal is ready.  Keep aside.
2. Take a pot; put tomato, ginger, green chilli and curry leaves, add one cup of water, cook  on medium flame for 3-4 minutes or till become soft.
3. Add cooked dal in it; boil the mixture for couple of minutes.
4. Add coconut milk slowly into the mixture, keep on stirring.
5. Put off the flame, when it is about to boil.

Seasoning:

1. Put ghee in a small fry pan; add mustard seeds and cumin seeds, let it sputter for few seconds, put off the flame.
2. Add asafoetida and spread it to prepared dal.
3. “Moong dal with coconut milk(moong dal soup)” is ready to serve.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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