Recipe: Delicious Green gram curry(kerala cherupayar curry)

Recipe: Delicious Green gram curry(kerala cherupayar curry) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Green gram curry(kerala cherupayar curry). The curry pairs perfectly with Chiratta Puttu / Puttu( Kerala steam cake) / Appam / Idiyappam / Chappathi. This is very simple and easy to prepare recipe, even for the beginners like me. Hope you all will try it and share your feedback with me.

Today's recipe is one of my favourite from Kerala cuisine called Cherupayar Curry or Green Gram Curry (Green Moong).

A very simple No Onion No Garlic Coconut based Curry that serves as a great side dish option for chapati, rice and breakfast too.

A protein rich recipe that is easy to make, is not heavy on spices and is quite filling too.

You can cook Green gram curry(kerala cherupayar curry) using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Green gram curry(kerala cherupayar curry)

1. You need of green gram.

2. You need of onion sliced.

3. You need of green chillies slit.

4. Prepare of curry leaves.

5. Prepare of Salt.

6. You need of To grind:.

7. You need of grated coconut.

8. Prepare of coriander powder.

9. Prepare of red chilli powder.

10. You need of turmeric powder.

11. It’s of cumin seeds.

12. You need of water.

13. It’s of For seasoning:.

14. It’s of oil (coconut oil).

15. You need of mustard seeds.

16. Prepare of onion cut into small pieces.

17. You need of curry leaves.

18. You need of red chillies.

Cherupayar curry or green moong dal curry recipe (green gram dal curry or green mung bean curry) without coconut makes a great Kerala style side dish with Indian dishes like chapathi, poori, puttu, dosa, idli or rice or kanji (rice soup).

Green moong dal curry also known as cherupayar curry or pachai payar curry (made using green moong dal/whole green mung beans) is a simple, delicious and.

Kerala Cherupayar Curry Recipe (Green Moong and Yellow Moong Dal Recipe) is a comforting dal made from a blend of green mung bean and yellow mung bean lentil.

Cherupayar refers to the green moong lentil in Malayalam.

Green gram curry(kerala cherupayar curry) instructions

1. Ingredients pic:.

2. Add green gram, sliced onion, slit green chillies, salt, 1/4 tspn of turmeric powder, 1/2 tspn of chilli powder and 1& 1/2 or 2 cup of water and cook till 1 whistle at medium flame.

3. To grind: add grated coconut, chilli powder, turmeric powder and cumin to mixer bowl along with 1/2 cup of water as per the measures mentioned and grind to a paste and keep aside..

4. Open the cooker after the steam is completely released and add coconut paste.. add water to adjust the consistency required..add salt as per taste and stir well and let boil for 5 to 10 min in low flame…

5. For seasoning : take a seasoning vessel add 1-2tbspn oil and heat..Add mustard seeds and let it splutter.. Now add the othe ingredients I.e. onion, red chillies and curry leaves and saute till onions turn light brown in colour…

6. Add the seasoning to the cooked green gram curry and stir…

7. Green gram curry can be had with rice, chapatis or puttu (steam cake).

The curry is made with simple flavors and the addition of coconut oil in the dal lifts the whole flavor of the dish.

Mung Beans are a high source of fiber, protein and antioxidants.

Cherupayar (green gram) curry is an age old traditional curry that pairs perfectly with puttu just like kerala style kadala curry.

This really makes a very lip smacking combo with puttu and pappadam.

We add a tsp of hot ghee too to get the actual flavors.