Fenugreek Leaves South Indian Recipe How to Make

       Hi, good after noon to all...... Today different and tasty pappu recipe (Dal recipe) Menthu kura Pappu is a very nutritious Andhra dal dish that calls for the use of tur dal and fresh methi leaves. First thing one notices about fresh fenugreek is how beautiful and delicate the leaves are. Then the smell, aromatherapy in truest sense, when pressure cooked with toor dal or sautéed with potatoes, any other vegetable, the leaves release wonderful fragrance. Fenugreek is one of those green leafy veggies, looks innocently innocuous but when cooked, dazzles & grabs your attention by its wonderful aroma and makes you try and like it. For a dal-rice addict like me, nothing beats the taste of rice and dal made of fresh fenugreek leaves. Very tasty and nutrititous, it’s one of my favorite foods. Fenugreek and toor dal combination is a true and tested recipe, very popular in our Andhra (Nellore) & Raayala seema region of Andhra, again one of those I learned from my mother. Lets see the process to make step by step process to makeit the taste recipe.......... 

Ingredients :-

• Toor dal 1 cup
• Fenugreek leaves 2 cup or 2 bunches 
• Onions 2
• Tomatoes 3
• Green chilies 8
• Tamarind lemon size
• Red chili powder 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil 6 tbsp
• Mustard seeds 1 tsp
• Urad dal 1 tsp
• Cumin seeds 1 tsp
• Curry leaves
• Red chilies 2
• Hing 2 pinches
  

Preparations :-

1. First take a cooker add toor dal, fenugreek leaves, tomato pieces, chopped onions, chopped green chilies, turmeric powder, red chili powder, tamarind, water 1 glass and then close with lid and cook it for 4 to 5 vissels.....
2. After 5 vissels switch off the gas and then put a side for 10 minutes it will be cool......
   
3. Next open the lid and then, add salt to taste and then mash it well for.........
4. Mash it like this, then put it a side......
   
   
   
5. Now take a wok add oil to heat, oil is heated then add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leafs, red chili pieces, hing to fry..... 
   
6. And then add mashed dal mixer into that, again mix it well for.....
   
7. Cook it for 1 minute, then move it to a serving bowl and then serve it........
   

And now so yummy tasty recipe Fenugreek Dal (Menthi Aaku Pappu) is ready to eat...... You can serve it with steam rice or roti, chapati... Its so good to eat this pappu (dal)...... Simple ingredients and simple process time also save...... So friends try this recipe in your home and then send to me a small feed back to me :) Your's Neha Satish.......