Pachai Payaru Sundal recipe | Green Gram Sundal
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. Vegan, Can be easily GF
Servings 2 people
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.