Green Tomato Dal / Green Tomato Pappu / Tomatillo Lentils Curry

Today's recipe is simple, easy to make comfort side dish Dal curry using Green tomato / Tomatillo & Masoor dal/Red Lentils. This is a quick & simple recipe just involves cooking of dal and seasoning. This kind of simple recipes comes in handy to make our busy weekdays' lunch more easy and healthy. As it is a mild or less spicy recipe kids will definitely love it. You can serve this dal/pappu with rice and topped with ghee or sesame oil. My kids love this dal with rice and dosa. Best and easy side dish for rice to serve kids.

For a change, With the simple dal/Pappu i added tomatillos and the  Tomatillo pappu tasted mild tangy and delicious. I served this Tomatillo pappu with rice for lunch and rotis for dinner. Tomatillos more or less like the raw tomato in taste and i even tried chutney with it (to be blogged soon). Now off to the recipe..

Green Tomatoes and Tomatillos are not same, i mean here that you can use either green tomato or tomatillo for making this dal. So don't confuse that both green tomato and tomatillo are same.

Hariyali Dal / Greens & Lentils Curry

Today's recipe is easy and healthy, comfort side dish made using Dal/Moong dal and Greens combo. Hariyali means "Green" or Green colored, so Hariyali Dal means dal curry with greens n green color. I saw this recipe in a cookery show long back and had tried this many time and now its one of our family fav side dish. This curry goes well with both rice n rotis. I slightly tweaked the recipe to my taste, very healthy n nutritious side dish. For this recipe i used both Spinach and Methi Leaves and also Cilantro for Greens and Moongdal. But its traditionally made using masoor dal. This is so easy to make very healthy n filling Side dish.

Cabbage Kootu / Cabbage Lentils Coconut Curry / Cabbage Dal Curry

Ingredients

1. Chana dal/split peas 1/4 cup
2. Moongdal/Yellow lentils 1/2 cup 
3. Cabbage 1 and 1/2 cup (chopped) 
4. Onion 1 small size 
5. Tomato 1 small size
6. Turmeric Powder 1/4 tsp
7. Salt     to taste
8. Cilantro      few finely chopped to garnish

To Wet Grind

1. Coconut 1/4cup (shredded)
2. Green chillies 5 no.s 
3. Garlic flakes 1 no 
4. Ginger 1 inch 
5. Cumin seeds 1 tsp 
6. Pepper corns 1 tsp 
7. Dalia/Roasted gram dal 1 tbsp

for tempering

• Mustard seeds  1tsp
• Dry red chilli     1 no.(broke)
• Curry leaves      1 twig
• Cumin seeds      1tsp
• Hing                  1/4 tsp or more
• Oil /ghee            2 tsp

Method

• Grind the ingredients under the heading "To Wet Grind" using little water to a smooth paste n keep aside. 
• Chop the vegetables and keep ready. 

• Cook chana dal & moongdal together with 2-3 cups of water using turmeric powder when it is 3/4th done, add vegetables and ground coconut paste. 

• Mix well add necessary salt and cook covered till the raw smell of the masala goes off. 

• Now in a small pan heat oil and add all tempering items one by one. 
• then add the tempering to the kootu/curry . 
• Cabbage kootu is ready.It goes well with rice, rotis n dosa.

Note:
this koottu can be done with chana dal alone or moongdal alone but the combo gives nice taste.
instead of cabbage u can also add, chayote, turnip, radish, bottle gourd and ash gourd or any deisred vegetables.