Published: by Absolutely Recipes, in the Indian recipes category.

Mango Dal Recipe.

Ingredients:

1 Cup toor dal or moong dal
1 cup raw mango cubed with skin
2 1/2 cups water or as needed
salt to taste
2 green chilies
tempering mamidikaya pappu
2 tbsp ghee or 1 tbsp oil
1 clove garlic crushed or 1/2 tsp grated ginger
pinch asafoetida or hing (optional)
1/8 tsp turmeric or haldi
1/2 tsp mustard or rai
1/2 to 3/4 tsp cumin or jeera
1 broken red chili or few curd chilies
1 sprig curry leaves

Recipe Instructions:

Add dal to a pressure cooker and wash it few times and drain off the water.
Pour 2 1/2 cups of fresh water to the pressure cooker.
Sprinkle 1 tsp salt over the green mango.
Scrub it very well and rinse off.
Chop it to pieces, discard the seed.
You don't need to peel the mango as the actual flavor comes from the mango skin.
Add the mango pieces to the cooker along with salt, green chilies and turmeric.
Pressure cook for 2 whistles if cooking directly in the cooker.
Or 3 whistles if cooking in a bowl placed inside the cooker.
You can cook this in a pot as well till soft.
When the pressure goes off.
Open the lid.
Mango dal must be soft cooked.
You can lightly mash if you like it.
Tempering mamidikaya pappu
add ghee or oil to a pan and heat.
Next add mustard, cumin and garlic.
When they begin to sizzle, add curry leaves and red chili or curd chilies.
Fry till they turn crisp.
Add hing (optional) and turmeric.
Pour this to the mamidikaya pappu and stir.
Serve mango dal with rice or chapathi.

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