Moong Dal Sambar Recipe | How to make Moong Dal Sambar | (Pesara Pappu Pulusu)

Hi friends, thank you all for visiting my website and @EATeasyvegrecipes youtube channel. Today's recipe is moong dal sambar or pesara pappu pulusu. Moong dal sambar easy recipe is made with yellow moong dal, onions and spices. I have learned this recipe from my Mother in Law(MIL). Yellow moong dal sambar is made in my in laws house only, I don't know about it before wedding. Moong dal sambar recipe is very easy and simple. And of course good for health. We normally use either sambar vengayam(pearl onion) or small onions too for this. We need not slice onions. Moong dal sambar is a simple comfort food, with the tangy tamarind juice and tadka over it makes it flavourful. Pesara Pappu Pulusu is protein rich and contains less amount of cholesterol. Serve it along with hot piping rice, normally it is accompanied with til powder and a dollop of ghee.
Click the links below for more moong dal recipes:
Pesara Kattu
Chintakaya Pesara Pappu Pulusu
PesaraPappu Charu
Check out for other sambar varieties:
Majjiga Pulusu
Chukka kura Pulusu
Gongura Pulusu
Onion Garlic Pulusu
Bachali kura Ava Pulusu
Chintakaya Pulusu

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Moong Dal Sambar Recipe | How to make Moong Dal Sambar | (Pesara Pappu Pulusu)
Author: Sailaja Angara
Preparation Time: 20M
Cooking time: 15M
Servings: 6 people

Moong dal sambar is a simple comfort food, with the tangy tamarind taste and tadka over it makes it flavourful.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup Moong Dal/Pesara pappu
• 1/2 Cup Tamarind Juice
• 6 to 8 Small Onions OR 1/2 Cup Shallots
• Salt to Taste
• 1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder
• 1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
• 2 tbsp Oil
• 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
• 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
• 2 or 3 Red Chillis
• 5 to 7 Curry Leaves
• Fistful Coriander Leaves
• 1/2 tsp Asafoetida

Procedure:

1. Pressure cook moong dal for 3 whistles.
2. While pressure cooking the dal add a spoonful of oil to avoid spilling of the dal.
3. Soak tamarind and extract juice out of it.
4. Remove the stalks and peel the skin of onions.
5. Boil or pressure cook onions, with little salt and turmeric powder, for 1 or 2 whistles.
6. Once the cooker cools down completely, open the lid.
7. Add cooked moong dal, tamarind juice and required amount of salt.
8. Let the moong dal sambar cook for 5 to 8 minutes.
9. Add red chilli powder and asafoetida.
10. Let it boil till it reaches rolling boil on a low flame.
11. In another pan, heat oil, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds and red chilli.
12. As soon as the mustard seeds starts spluttering add curry leaves and coriander leaves.
13. Add the tadka to the boiling moong dal sambar and let the flavours of tadka sync into the sambar.
14. Serve moong dal sambar or pesara pappu pulusu with hot piping rice and a spoonful of til powder.