Homemade Dishes - Parippu Curry

Parippu Curry

Our thick parippu curry is a side dish with rice, pappadam and ghee.

Ingredients

• 1cup parippu (lentils)

Masala mix

• ½ coconut grated
• ½ tsp jeera(cumin seed)
• 2-3 green chillies
• 4-5 pods of garlic
• Seasoning
• ¼ tsp mustard seed (kaduku)
• 3-4 shallots (chuvanna ulli)
• 2 dried red chillies
• 1 stalk of curry leaves
• Salt as required
• 3-4 cups of water

Preparation

Cook the parippu and mash it.  Grind the masala mix items to a paste.  Add the masala paste, salt to taste and 1-2 cups of water to the mashed parippu.  Mix well and let the parippu masala mix to boil; then set it aside.

Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seed (can use ghee also) wait to crackle.  Then add shallot, curry leaves and dried red chillies.  Fry till shallot turns golden brown; season the parippu masala mix.  Delicious parippu curry is ready to serve.  Go To KERALA FEAST

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