Step-wise Recipe to make Pachai Payaru Sundal. South Indian snack or prasadam recipe made with moong sprouts or green gram. Serve as Navaratri Prasadam, mid-morning snack or healthy tea time snack.
Pachai Payaru Sundal or Green Gram Sundal is a healthy South Indian snack recipe with steamed sprouted moong beans and coconut with a tempering of mustard seeds and curry leaves. High in protein, filling, nutritious and healthy snack recipe.
In South India, sundal is made during the 9 day Navratri festival. Made with a variety of pulses, legumes and lentils, it is a nourishing low-oil snack or side.
Mung Beans or Green Moong Dal is a good source of plant-based protein. We use it to make Chilla (savory pancakes), Moong Sprouts Salad and curry to pair with rice or roti.
Apart from soaking the green gram or green moong beans and sprouting (not necessary), the cooking time hardly takes 15-20 minutes. If you meal-prep and store the cooked beans in freezer, putting together this snack takes 5 minutes.
Serve green gram sundal as mid-morning snack, post-workout meal or light dinner.
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Ingredients
Pachai Payaru / Green Gram / Green Moong Dal / Mung Beans - Rinse and soak the beans for 5 - 6 hours. Drain the water and either sprout the beans, pressure cook or steam them.
It takes anywhere between 36 to 48 hours for green moong beans to sprout. You can freeze the sprouts for more than a month. In the refrigerator, it stays fresh for a week.
It is easier to steam sprouts and consume as a snack with just a sprinkle of salt and pepper. It takes 5-10 minutes for the sprouts to steam (tender with a bite).
You can consume raw sprouts but my husband finds it difficult to digest raw sprouts.
Fresh Coconut - If using frozen coconut, thaw and use.
Tempering - We prefer coconut oil for sundal. You can use sesame oil or any neutral flavor cooking oil for the recipe.
Green Gram sundal is Vegan. For a 100% gluten free recipe, refrain from adding hing or asafoetida. Hing aids in digestion and recommended for dishes with when cooking sprouts or beans.
How to make Pachai Payaru Sundal or green gram sundal recipe
Steam moong sprouts for 5-8 minutes or until tender.
Heat a pan, add coconut oil, mustard seeds, urad dal and dry red chilies.
Once mustard crackles, add hing or asafoetida, curry leaves.
Then add steamed sprouts, salt to taste and mix.
Add fresh coconut and switch off the flame, serve.
Variation
If you like spicy sundal, add finely chopped green chilies or red chili powder / paprika.
We love adding Sundal Masala Powder (lentil based spice mix) to cooked beans / sprouts. You can avoid coconut if using sundal podi.
More Sundal recipes to try
Pattani Sundal with Sundal Masala (White or Yellow Peas)
Chickpea Sundal (Chana)
Kadalai Paruppu Sundal (Chana Dal)
Karamani Sundal (Cow Peas / Black eyed peas)
Kondakadalai Sundal (Brown Chickpeas or Kala Chana)
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Pachai Payaru Sundal recipe | Green Gram Sundal
Equipment
- Steamer
Ingredients
- 2 cups Green Moong Sprouts
- 1 tablespoon Coconut oil
- ½ teaspoon Urad Dal or Ulutham Paruppu
- ½ teaspoon Mustard Seeds, Kadagu or Rai
- 3 - 4 Whole Red Chillies or use green chilies, finely chopped
- 3 tablespoon freshly Grated coconut
- A pinch of Hing or Asafoetida
- A sprig of curry leaves or few as required
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Steam moong sprouts for 5-8 minutes or until tender.
- Heat a pan, add coconut oil, mustard seeds, urad dal and dry red chilies.
- Once mustard crackles, add hing or asafoetida, curry leaves. Then add steamed sprouts, salt to taste and mix.
- Add fresh coconut and switch off the flame, serve.
Notes
- Tempering - Substitute coconut oil with sesame oil or any neutral flavor cooking oil for the recipe.
- Green Gram sundal is Vegan. For a 100% gluten free recipe, refrain from adding hing or asafoetida.
- If you like spicy sundal, add finely chopped green chilies or red chili powder / paprika.
- We love adding Sundal Masala Powder (lentil based spice mix) to cooked beans / sprouts. You can avoid coconut if using sundal podi.
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Vidya Narayan
Wow Vidya, superb share. Very healthy.. Happy Navratri
Wish you the same dear. Thank you!
love this time of the year, nice share of sundal .Happy festivities !
Absolutely I love the festivities & food ! Thank you & wish you the same.
Healthy & tasty sundal ! Looking forward to your post on golu celebrations !!
Season of Sundals ! Shall post very soon. Thank you for reading.
Nice description of golu, waiting for your visual treat.
Thank you so much. Shall post soon.
Happy Navratri Vidya. Tomorrow I am planning to prepare this sundal.
Waiting for your visual treat dear!
Wish you the same dear. I am yet to decide what to make tomorrow. Glad you are making the green gram one though. Shall soon post the Golu pics.
Thank you.
Vidya, I cannot wait to see the photos of your Golu. Loved how you describe the hustle and bustle of the Navrati season in your home. I am a big fan of sundals. Love your recipe.
Thank you so much .. All my loved ones, friends, family & my virtual family too are in my prayers these 9 days.
Thanks dear Vidya
So healthy and flavourful!
Thanks dear
I love sundals and this one is damn healthy!!!!!awesome share vidya ????
Me too .. I love eating sundals with curd rice or just curd too at times .. extremely filling. Thank you so much dear.
Just luv it ??simple but healthy nd yumm
Thank you so much. I agree.