HOTCHULHA

Ingredients:

• Toor Dal – 1/2 Cup
• Raw Green Mango – 1/2 Cup – Pieces
• Green Chilies – 5 cut into small pieces.
• Mustard Seeds – 1.4 Teaspoon
• Curry Leaves – 1 Stem
• Oil – 1 Table Spoon
• Salt to Taste
• Turmeric – 1/4 Teaspoon

Method:

1. Put Toor Dal, Mango Pieces, Green Chilies & Turmeric Powder in Pressure Cooker and add 1 cup of water and cook it for 3 whistles.
2. Once the pressure is gone add salt and mush the Dal with spoon.
3. Take a small pan and put 1 table spoon of oil and get it to heat. Put the mustard  Seeds and Curry leaves and put this mix in Dal.
4. It goes well with white rice with papdam/vadiyams.
5. Do not mush the Mango pieces too much.

Ingredients:

• Small Purple Bringal (Baigan) – 6
• Cooked Garbanzo – 1/4 Cup
• Green Mango – 1/4 Cup Pieces
• Onion – 1/4 Cup  – Cut into small pieces.
• Ginger-garlic Paste – 1 Teaspoon
• Red Chilies powder – 1/2 Teaspoon
• Turmeric Powder – 1/4 Teaspoon
• Coriander Powder – 1/4 Teaspoon
• Salt – to taste
• Oil as required
• Cilantro – Handful.

Method:

1. Take the green part of the stems and make incisions and put into salted water.
2. Take a pan and put 2 tablespoons of oil and put onion and saute for couple of minutes and put the ginger-garlic paste and fry till the raw smell goes off.
3. Now put red chili powder, coriander powder, salt and Baigans and cooked garbanzo and put 1/2 cup of water and let it cook for 5 minutes.
4. Put the cut mango pieces and cook for 10 minutes on medium heat.
5. When everything comes close, add cilantro.

Serve this with white rice or Roties.