Basic Sundal

 White Chickpeas Sundal:

Dear friends,sundals can be made from motchai, green gram dal, channa dal, peanut, cow gram, dried green peas, white chick peas, black chick peas, and even corn.

there is a basic method to do the sundal.
Other than that, there are spicy recipes with additionl ingredients.

First I will give the simple method:

Basic Recipe:

1 cup of white chick peas, soak for 8 hours.
1 sprig curry leaves
2 long dry red chillies cut into small pieces.
1 tbs of coconut scrappings
little lime juice or little grated mango (optional)

1 tsp oil
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp urad dal
little asafoetida
salt to taste.

Method:

Pressure cook the chick peas with little salt. drain the water.
Heat the oil in a wok, add in the mustard seeds, when it splutters, add in the urad dal, curry leaves and the asafoetida powder., stir fry for a second. add in the boiled chick peas and the coconut scrappings. Stir once more and remove. you can add the grated mango or the lime juice, mix and serve.


Note: If making green gram dal, you need to soak only 2 hours, then boil it in a pot, not pressure cooker.

If doing with channa dal or moong dal, you need not soak it. wash and boil and see that they are not over cooked.

I will post later, the recipes for spicy sundals.