Konda Kadalai Sundal | Black Chickpeas Sundal Recipe | Easy Sundal Recipes

Konda Kadalai Sundal, Black Chickpeas Sundal is this healthy, easy sundal recipe perfect for Navratri Naivedyam and snack. Sundal is made with multiple legumes but chickpeas is one of most famous beans used in Sundal and it's very easy too. I made this sundal during Ganesha Chaturthi and couldn't post it that time so now during Navratri I am sharing this super easy sundal recipe which is perfect as snack too.

Paasi Payaru Sweet Sundal | Green Moong Dal Sweet Sundal | Easy Sundal Recipes

Green Gram Sweet Sundal, Paasi Payaru Inippu Sundal, Green Moong Sweet Sundal, Paasi Payaru Sweet Sundal what ever we may call it is this healthy, easy sundal recipe perfect for Ganesh/Vinayak Chaturthi and Navratri Naivedyam and snack. Along with savory version of sundal sweet sundal is also very popular in festival season and sweet or inippu sundal really add that extra zing to any festival and no to mention sweet normally attracts more people than savory dishes :)

Navratri Recipes | South Indian Navaratri Recipes 2017

 

Navratri is starting from 21st Sep 2017 to 29th Sep 2017 this year, Navratri festival celebrated across India in different forms and Durga Puja, dandiya & garba and kolu/golu (array of Idols) is famous among navratri customs. In North India during Navratri fast is observe with some very strict rules to follow and again the rules changes from house to house or region to region. Like in my place the rules are very strict. And in South India specially in Tamil Nadu Kolu or Golu as we call it is special for Navaratri where array of Idols is being arranged and some people do the arragements theme base too. It's so much fun to go and visit golu and eat all the yummy prasadam, I used to visit golu in my childhood at neighbours places and my friend's house, I really miss so much of those now.

Sprouted Green Gram Sundal | Paasi Payaru Sundal | Navratri Sundal Recipes

Green Gram Sprouts Sundal, Green Moong Sprouts Sundal, Sprouted Bean Sundal, Paasi Payaru Sundal and with many other names is this healthy, easy and super quick sundal recipe perfect for Navratri Naivedyam and snack. If you look for something different than the usual sundal recipes than this sprouts sundal can be great relief plus it's vegan, healthy what more to ask for?

Rajma Masala Sundal | Navratri Sundal Recipes

Rajma Masala Sundal is easy sundal recipe for Navratri, Ganesh Chaturthi or this rajma (red kidney beans) sundal works great as snack, breakfast, light meal too.  Sundal is prepared with variety of legumes like White Chickpeas, black chickpeas, lobia, peanuts, dried peas etc. Sundals are popular during Navratri specially in Southern India, people keeing Kolu make sundal as naivedyam and to distribute as sundal is easy, healthy snack and whether we make in small or large quantity it's almost same effect.

Karamani Sundal | Lobia Sundal Recipe | Ganesha Chaturthi Naivedyam Recipes

Lobia or Karamani Sundal is simple, easy salad recipe made often during Ganesh Chaturthi or Navratri.  Lobia, green chili, coconut and seasoning makes this  sundal or salad tasty, healthy and filling snack.  We have make sundals with various legumes like black chickpeas, white chickpeas, sweet corn, peanut, val beans, green gram (moong dal), bengal gram (chana dal), rajma, green peas even with soya and many more.

Peanut Sundal | Verkadalai Sundal | Navratri Recipes

Wishing All Happy Navratri and Durga Pooja with fun, fare and loads of good food.  Festive times make me miss India a lot, for past few year during pooja times I always been in India and would visit different pandals, the festive mood, song-dance, the unspoken competition of who’s pandal is better than other and not to forget the bhakti songs in popular hit numbers playing day and night is all what makes Pooja days memorable.  Coming back to sundal, popular in South India during Navratri is simple, easy to prepare and taste delicious.  I don’t make much of sundals but I do once in a while and when I saw fresh peanuts in Little India I grab it, last year I posted Mochakottai sundal and to continue the trend this year is peanut sundal.  You can find other Navratri and Vrat recipes here.

Ingredients:

Peanuts – 1 Cup
Oil – 2 tsp
Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp
Curry Leaves – 1 sprig
Green Chili – 3
Granted Coconut – 3 tbsp
Salt – To taste



Method:

1. Wash and pressure cook peanuts for 2-3 whistles with little less than 1 cup of water and salt.  Drain and keep aside peanuts.
2. In a pan or wok heat oil add mustard seeds and allow to splutter, add curry leaves, green chili and sauté for 30 seconds.
3. Add peanuts and stir for a minute.  Add coconut and mix well and off flame. 

Variations
~ You can use dry peanuts too.
~ You can add finely chopped 1/2 tsp ginger for extra zing, I add some times.   You can grind ginger and chili together and add too.
~ You can replace green chili with dry red chili.
~ You can add little grated mango if you want tangy taste.

Have a nice day ~~

Ragda Patties | Chaat Recipes

Ragda Patties is one of the popular street food or chaat item in North India and it’s one of the chaat items that I make the most and never really got the chance to post the recipe for the simple reason that it’s get’s over so fast before any clicking can be done!  So this time I made this for a friend and decided to post the recipe.  Slowly ragda pattices has been one of our favorite chaat cause it’s works perfect as a chaat/snack and also as a meal, I mostly do this for dinner. List of ingredients looks long but it's actually quite easy to prepare and if we have the chutney ready then it's quick too.


Bursting with so many flavors and spices, ragda pattice is a treat.  I have made this couple of times for guests and they started to love these too.  Ragda here is almost same as sundal that we get in Chennai from street hawkers, it was fun to eat hot piping sundal on raining days! I do the same some times too just make the ragda/sundal and relish it.  And ya ofcourse I did disappear for some time now but that’s was not a planned break, let's checkout the recipe now.



Ingredients:

For Ragda: [Serves 3-4 people]
White Dry Peas/ White Vatana – 1 1/2 cups
Water – 4 cups or as required
Salt – To taste
Oil – 2 tbsp
Asafoetida/Hing – 1/4 tsp
Cumin Seeds – 1/2 tsp
Mustard Seeds – 1/2 tsp
White Sesame Seeds – 1 tsp
Crushed Peanuts – 2 tbsp [optional]
Curry Leaves – 1 sprig
Fresh minced ginger-garlic – 1 tbsp [or ginger-garlic paste 1 tbsp]
Onion – 2 medium
Green Chillies – 2
Tomato – 1 large
Red Chili Powder – 1 tsp
Coriander Seeds Powder – 1 tsp
Turmeric Powder – 1/2 tsp
Amchur/Dry Mango Powder – 1 tsp Or Lemon Juice – 1 tbsp
Cumin Powder – 1/2 tsp
Garam Masala Powder – 1/2 tsp
Cilantro – to garnish

For Patties (Aloo Tikki)
Please refer the recipe here

For Serving:
Green Chutney – To taste
Sweet Chutney – To taste
Chopped Onion
Chopped Cilantro
Sev



Method:
1. Wash and soak vatana/dry peas over night.

2. Drain, rinse and pressure cook vatana with water and salt for 2 whistles.
 
3. Meanwhile finely chop onion, green chillies, tomato and cilantro, keep aside.

4. In a pan or wok heat oil add Asafoetida/Hing, cumin, mustard seeds and allow to splutter. Followed by peanuts (if using), curry leaves and sesame seeds, allow it to pop. (keep a lid handy, after adding sesame seeds over the pan or it will pop all over) Add ginger-garlic and sauté until light brown.



5. Now add onion, green chillies and fry until onion becomes translucent, Add all powder spices except amchur powder and give a good stir.



6. Add tomato and  cook until tomato mashes well or oil starts to leave side of pan.  Now add boiled vatana/peas and mix everything well.



7.  Add more water if required and adjust salt, add amchur powder or lemon juice, bring it to good boil and simmer in slow for 5 minutes.  Garnish with cilantro.


Our ragda is ready.



To Assemble/Serve
1. In a bowl or flat plate keep 2 pattices/tikki and pour radga over. 
2. Add green and sweet chutney, sprinkle onion, sev and cilantro.
Have it warm and enjoy. 



Have a nice day ~~

Mochakottai Sundal | Val Beans Salad | Navratri Vrat Recipes

How your Navratri Celebration is going?  Hope you are having fun, food and laughter.  Thanks to facebook I’m able to see beautiful Golu setup from other bloggers friends it’s a virtual treat indeed, I hope to see some Durga Pandal pictures too.   We don’t make sundal much, not during Navratri too which is very famous in down South (India).  Sundal is spiced up like Channa Chat recipe or famous Channa Jor Garam, there’s also few old hindi songs goes by same name. 

I hardly make sundal, it’s rare then once in a blue moon, but since it’s sundal everywhere in blogs now a days I wanted to eat some too.  One can make sundal of any beans like chickpeas, black chickpeas, peanuts etc and here am using mochakottai (mochai kottai) aka Val Beans which is delicious option to try. 

Ingredients:
Mochakottai/Val Beans – 1 cup/150gms
Grated Coconut – 2 tbsp
Salt – to taste
Oil – 1 tsp
  For Tempering:
Hing/Asafoetida – a pinch
Mustard Seeds – 1/4 tsp
Urad Dal – 1/4 tsp
Dry Red Chillies – 1
Slit Green Chillies – 1
Minced Ginger – 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves – 1 sprig

   Method:
1. Rinse and soak mochakottai/val beans for 5-6 hours or overnight. 

  ~ Mochai kottai double in size after soaking over night, you can see in the below picture the size of beans before and after soaking. 

2. Rinse again and pressure cook with enough water (around 3 cups) and salt for 4-5 whistles, once pressure is release drain water and keep boiled mochakottai aside.

3. In a pan or wok heat oil and add ingredients ‘for tempering’ in order.   Once mustard seeds splutters and urad dal gets light brown add boiled mochakotttai and give a good stir.

4. Add grated coconut mix well (adjust salt if required) and fry for 2 minute, turn off flame.

Our mochakottia.val beans sundal is ready.  A wonderful way to munch on these guilt free snacks.  We had with as always tea.

 Variations:
~ You can add 2 tbsp of fresh cilantro or mint.
~ Add little fresh crushed peppercorn for that extra spicy kick.  I add little pepper for DH and he liked it that way.
~ Fresh minched ginger adds good flavour so try not to skip it.

Have a nice day ~~