Kadappa

This is Thanjavur famous side dish for idly and chappathi. But it is prepared in different ways in different places. I have completely made changes in this dish to suit working ladies, to save gas energy, so simple and so easy to cook. This also tastes so nice as our grandma cooked in olden days.

Actual recently i didnt made this dish. So have no chance to take photo. Earlier I made this only with brinjal, that photo is available and going to post it here. This is another side dish for chappathi without coconut and oil. Very healthy for all ages. Very simple and tasty recipe. So please try and comment.

Ingredients

Spilt moong dhal ( pasi paruppu) - 1/2 cup

Channa dhal ( Kadala paruppu) - 1/4 cup

Brinjal - 1/4 kg ( if no other vegetables added increase it to 1/2 kg)

Carrot - 2

Potato - 1 

Onion- 1

Tomato - 2

Green chillies - 5 ( increase or decrease according to your taste)

Coriander leaves to garnish.

For seasoning

Oil - 1/4 tsp 

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Urad dal - 1/2 tsp

Jeera or Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Asafoetida powder - little

Curry leaves - little .

Method

Cut all vegetables in cubical size, chop onion, tomatoes, green chillies  finely. Take a pressure pan, put the split gram dhal, chenna dhal, above it put potato, then carrot, then brinjal, above it onion , tomato, green chillies.Add one and half of cup of water and salt. Place the cooker in the flame and cook for one whistle. Don't allow it to cook for more than one whistle. After pressure reduces, open the cooker, mash or mix  everything well. Season it with the ingredients mentioned under seasoning. Garnish with coriander leaves.

    Serve hot with chappathi or idly.