Sweet - Tart Cowpeas / Alasandala Pulusu

Today is the last day of BM#7 and I am here with a recipe adapted from Raghavan Iyer's 660 Curries.

I use red chori beans frequently in my kitchen and my MIL's red chori bean - eggplant preparation is one of our favorite dishes. When I noticed several recipes using this bean in Iyer's cookbook, I was fascinated and copied down the recipes (only the list of ingredients to be precise) to try later. And today's post happens to be one of them. A delicious, hearty, sweet- tangy dal that goes well with rice / rotis.

Ingredients: (4 Servings)

1/2 cup cowpeas / red chori beans

3 - 4 Tbsp peanuts - toasted and ground

2 tsp oil

1 tsp cumin seeds

1 tsp mustard seeds

3 -4 green chillies (I used Serrano peppers.)

Pinch of asafoetida

Few curry leaves

1/4 tsp turmeric powder

 2- 3 Tbsp tamarind juice or to taste

Jaggery to taste

Salt to taste

Method:

* Cook chori beans until soft adding plenty of water in a pressure cooker. Once the valve pressure is gone, remove the beans and drain the water used to cook. Wash the beans thoroughly. If you prefer a gravy, 1/4 of the cooked beans can be pureed.

* Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves and asafoetida. When mustard seeds start to pop, add green chillies and turmeric powder. Fry for about 30 seconds.

* Then add the cooked beans (and puree if using), peanut powder, jaggery, salt and tamarind. Add water if needed, to bring it to a desired consistency. Bring the mixture to a rolling boil. Lower the heat, simmer for a couple of minutes more and turn off the stove.

For those of you who missed any of my posts in this marathon, here is a recap.

1st week - "Microwave Cooking" Recipes

1. Pear Jam

2. Eggless, 2 Minutes Microwave Brownie  

3. Chocolate Popcorn Trail Mix

4. Danedar Dal

5. Carrot Halwa

6. Vermicelli - Coconut Upma

7. Egglesss Microwave Cake (10 minutes)

2nd week - "Cooking from Cookbooks" Recipes

1. Magori Palak Ki Kadhi

2. Easy, Eggless Lime Cookies

3. Chole Panjim

4. Black Pepper - Cashew Rice

5. Imli Aloo

6. Vermicelli Dosas

Check what my fellow marathoners made today.

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