Potato Dal - Side-dish for Roti & Poori, using Pressure Cooker

Kuttu loves dal as sides for his morning breakfast. He loves Crispy Butter-toasted bread without any sides, but for rest he needs side-dish. Dosa - Sambar, Poori/Roti with Dal. Whenever, i keep him Roti/Poori for breakfast, He will ask me what have you kept as side-dish, paruppu sambhar or thakkali sambhar???? which means dal or tomato chutney??? For him specifically, i started mixing n matching dal and veggies in pressure cooker. These recipes are real life-savers. just pressure cook and do tadka/tempering, tadahhh a delicious side-dish ready in minutes.

Ingredients

2 Large Potatoes

1 Cup Moong Dal

¼ teaspoon Turmeric Powder

¼ teaspoon Red Chili Powder

½ teaspoon Coriander Powder

2 Cloves of garlic, Finely Chopped (optional)

1 teaspoon of Shredded Ginger

a handful of Coriander leves

Salt to taste

Tempering

1 tablespoon Groundnut Oil/Peanut oil

½ teaspoon Mustard Seeds

2-3 Red Chilies, I used Long Variety

hing a pinch

2 sprigs of curry leaves

Method

Wash and Soak Moong Dal for 5 minutes in plain water. Wash, Peel, and Chop Potatoes into Big Cubes.
Take Moong dal in a Pressure Pan, add the Chopped potatoes, Garlic . Add 2 Cups of Water, turmeric and Salt. When it starts boiling, add red chili powder and coriander powder. Close the lid and Pressure Cook for 4 Whistles.
When the Pressure releases, remove the lid and roughly mash the Mixture.

In a pan, heat oil given under tempering, Splutter mustard seeds, add hing, chilies, curry leaves and pour the Sizzling tempering over the Potato-Dal and Mix well.
Garnish with shredded ginger and coriander leaves and Serve Hot with Poori's/Roti's.

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