Toor Dal Rice / Thuvaram Paruppu Rice

Toor Dal Rice is one of the rich protein food. Simple and healthy vegetarian dish. Lets see the recipe.

Ingredients:

Rice Preparation:
Toor Dal - 1 cup
Rice - 1 1/2 cup
Tamarind - 1 lemon sized ball
Red chilli - 6 count
Small Onion - 1 count
Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp
Asafoetida - a generous pinch
Grated coconut - 1/2 cup

Seasoning:
Mustard - few
Onion - finely chopped
Curry leaves - few

Preparation Time: 30 mins

Method:

Soak tamarind in water for atleast 30 mins. Clean dal and par boil for 15 mins.Add asafoetida along with dal. While boiling, take care not to add excess water. Just add enough water for dal to boil. Once dal is boiled half way, add rice with required amount of water for rice only.

In the mean time, grind together chilli, cumin seeds and onion into a fine paste. Squeeze the soaked tamarind and prepare water which should be little thick. Make tamarind water for one cup only.

Add the ground mix and tamarind water to rice and dal. Add salt and grated coconut. Add the seasoning items into cooker and close the lid. After 3 whistles switch off the flame.

Toor Dal rice is now ready. It goes well with papad.

Mushroom Pepper Fry

Mushroom is one of the most yummy dishes and one of its kind. Lets see how to make mushroom pepper fry.

Ingredients:

Mushroom - 300 gm
Large Onion - 1, finely chopped
Ginger - 1" peice, finely chopped
Garlic - 5 to 6 cloves, finely chopped
Pepper powder - 2 tsp
Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Corriander powder - 1/2 tsp
Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Salt - As needed
Corriander leaves, curry leaves - few, finely chopped.

Preparation time: 20 mins

Method:

Clean the mushrooms and drain the water in it if any. Cut the mushrooms into medium pieces.

Chopped onions and cut mushrooms ratio could be 1: 1 1/2.

In a heavy bottom pan, heat oil. Add 3 to 4 tbsp of oil and saute ginger and garlic for few minutes.
Now add finely chopped onions to it. Add turmeric powder and salt.

Once onions are transparent in oil, add pepper powder, chilli powder, corriander powder, cumin powder and saute.

 Then add mushrooms to it. Mix the mushrooms with the already prepared dry masala. Close the pan.

No need of adding water as mushroom leaves more water when heated. Stir the contents once or twice so that masala flavor gets added in the mushroom. When the mushrooms are cooked, add corriander leaves and curry leaves.

Switch off the flame. Mushroom pepper fry is now ready.