Sodhi-Side dish for idiappam/Appam

This dish is from the Tirunelveli district of TamilNadu.It is an excellent side dish for idiappam.

This recipe serves two.

Ingredients:

=========

• Moong dal split - 60 grams
• Potato - 2 medium sized
• Veggies - carrots-1,peas-a handful,beans-6,onion-1 big
• salt - to taste
• ginger - a 1 inch piece
• green chillies - 3 to 4,according to taste
• lemon - 1
• coconut oil - 3 tsp
• Jeera/cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Coconut milk - thick-1 cup,diluted-1 cup
• Curry leaves - 2 sprigs
• Cloves - 2
• cinnamon - half inch stick

Method:

======

• Wash and pressure cook the moong dal.Mash it well.
• Pressure cook the potatoes,peel off the skin and mash well.
• Chop onions,carrots,beans into very small pieces ,say 6mm slices.
• Add 2 tsp of coconut oil in a kadai.Add cloves,cinnamon and the chopped veggies.
• Saute for 5 min and add the diluted coconut milk with little water.
• Cook covered till the veggies become tender.
• Heat 1/2 tsp of oil in a tadka pan,add half of chopped green chillies and saute for 2 sec.Grind it well in a mixer.
• Add the ground green chillies and salt into the kadai.Mix well.
• Add the mashed potatoes and moong dal too.Mix well.If its too thick add little water.It should have a diluted consistency.
• Let it cook for 5 min.
• Now add the thick coconut milk .Mix well and let it be on the stove for 3 min on a low flame.(No need to boil).
• Switch off the flame.Temper with cumin seeds,rest of chopped green chillies and curry leaves in 1/2 tsp of coconut oil.
• Chop ginger finely,Crush them and put in 1/2 glass of hot water.Extract the juice out of it completely and throw away the waste.
• After 5 to 10 min,add the ginger juice and lemon juice.
• Mix well and serve hot with idiappam.