Kadala Kari Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 Cup Black ChickPeas (Kadala)
• 1 Medium Onion Sliced
• 2 Sliced Green Chillies
• 1/2 Sliced Tomato
• 1 tbsp Ginger-Garlic Paste
• few Curry Leaves
• 1 tbsp Grated coconut
• few Coriander Leaves chopped
• 1/2 tsp Red Chilly Powder
• 1 1/2 tsp Coriander powder
• 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
• Mustard Seeds

Method:

• Soak chickpeas overnight .Cook it in a pressure cooker adding enough water,salt ,green chillies,half of ginger-garlic paste and half of sliced onion.
• Heat little oil in a pan and add grated coconut into it.Fry till light brown and remove it from the pan and clean it well. Keep aside to cool.
• When it is cooled ,grind it along with 2 tsp of cooked chickpeas and coriander leaves.
• Again add oil into the same pan and add mustard seeds into it.When they pop,add the curry leaves and the rest of onion and ginger-garlic paste.Saute till the onion turn brown.
• Add all the maslas and tomato into it.Saute well.
• Add cooked chickpeas along with the water into the pan.Mix well and allow it to boil for 5 minutes.Just before switching off add ground mixture into the curry.Stir well and simmer it for 2 more minutes.Serve hot.
• Good accompaniment for Appam, Puttu, Idiappam