Green gram / pacha payaru sundal is a healthy snack that you can prepare at the time of vinayagar chathurthi, Navarathri festival etc.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup – Green gram / pacha payaru
• 1 no – Onion (chopped finely)
• 2 tbsp – Coconut grated
• Salt as needed

Seasonings:

• 2 tsp – Oil
• 1/4 tsp – Mustard seeds
• 1/4 tsp – Split black gram
• 1/4 tsp – Cumin seeds
• 2 nos – Dry red chillies
• 4 or 5 nos – Fresh curry leaves
• 1 pinch – Asafoetida

Preparation method:

1. Wash and soak green gram for about 2 hours. Take a vessel, add soaked green gram and enough water to cook, then cook until they are soft or well cooked. Strain water completely and set aside.
2. Heat oil in a pan, season with items given in the list for seasonings. Add chopped onion and required salt, saute until transparent.
3. Add cooked green gram and saute for 2 mins or until moisture is completely absorbed.
4. Finally garnish with coconut grated and switch off the stove. Green gram sundal is ready.

Notes:

• You can also pressure cook green gram but i tried 2 to 3 times it got mashed. So i directly cooked in a vessel.
• You can also add green chillies in this recipe while adding onion.