Jalapeno with lentils / Karam Pappu

As the name indicates it is little different and has a unique smoky jalapeno flavor. This is a delicacy for some one who likes spicy dishes. I am tired of having dal with tamarind, we use lot of tamarind in our dishes like pulusu, rasam, sambar and  dals. I always look for ways to cut tamarind and here is one such recipe.

Ingredients

• 1 cup of Toor dal
• 1 tsp mustard seeds
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 3 jalapeno peppers/ 8 green chilies
• 3 dry red chilies
• pinch hing
• pinch turmeric
• curry leaves
• ½ onion finely chopped

Directons

• In a pressure cooker or in a pan, boil Dal and mix salt as per your taste and keep a side.
• Take a pan add ghee,musrtad,cumin,red chili dry, curry leaves, garlic and mix well then add chopped onions, hing,turmuric,green chilies/ Jalapenos, mix well and let all of them sauté till we see jalapenos are soft. Add the boiled dal and if required add water and bring to boil.
• Bring it to your desired consistency and serve it with hot rice and ghee and few papads on side and it is a divine.

Instead of jalapeno you can use different kinds of other peppers. but never use Habanero, it will blow your head. It is the hottest pepper,  do not play with it.

Note- When using pressure cooker to cook dal the ratio is 1 dal:2 water for toor dal.