Recipe - Lemon Dal (Nimmakai Pappu)

One half cup Tur gram; (toor or toovar
dal)
One half lg Lemon
1 pn Turmeric
lg Piece of ginger
2 Green chillies
1 Stem curry leaves
1 tablespoon Oil
One half teaspoon Peeled broken black gram
dal; (urad dal)
One half teaspoon Black mustard seeds
1 Red chilli
1 pn Asafoetida
Salt; to taste

1. Extract lemon juice.

2. Peel the ginger and chop finely. Chop the green chillies finely. Clean
and pluck curry leaves.

3. Boil the tur gram well.

4. Add salt and turmeric and cook. Remove when thick. Add lemon juice,
green chillies, curry leaves and ginger.

5. Break red chillie into pieces. Fry black gram, mustard seeds, red chilli
and asafoetida. Add to dal as seasoning.

Recipe by: Delicious Recipes From Andhra by Karuna

Posted to recipeludigest by Sharon Raghavachary schary@earthlink.net on
Feb 25, 1998