Pesara Pachadi (Soaked Green Gramdal Chutney) - An Yummylicious Andhra Chutney

Pesara Pachadi is a simple yummylicious Telugu food with fewer ingredients. When there are no vegetables at your home, this dish will be helpful with excellent taste. When extra guests came to your house, you can serve this excellent complimentary dish in a short span of time with simple ingredients. 

Ingredients :

Pesara Pappu(Moong dal or Green Gram)   :   1 cup

Red chilies:    5 to 6

Oil:     2 spoons

cumin:     1 teaspoon

Salt:     1 spoon or to taste

Asafoetida:      A pinch

Lemon Juice:      1 spoon

Black gram dal:      1/2 spoon

Yellow split lentils:      1/2 spoon

Aavalu:       1/4 spoon

Preparation :

1. Wash the Pesara Pappu (moong dal) thoroughly and soak in water for 45 minutes.

2. Split the red chilies into pieces.

3. Take a mixie jar, grind red chilies and cumin seeds into a coarse paste. 

4. Now drain the water from the soaked green gram dal.

5.Then add soaked Pesara Pappu, salt and grind them into a coarse paste. I usually make this chutney as coarse, if you like to have a fine paste, then grind it a little more. 

6. Take the ground chutney into a bowl, add 1spoon of lemon juice and mix well. 

7. Now flavor the dish with popu(Tadka), heat a pan add 2 spoons of oil then add minapappu,sanagapappu, aavalu, red chilies, jeera, finally sprinkle a pinch of asafoetida(inguva).Let the aavalu, Jeelakarra splutter. Fry for a few seconds, add curry leaves, saute for 2 seconds. The combination of Inguva(asafoetida)with cumin gives a unique flavor to the dish.

8. Now the most delicious and mouth-watering chutney is ready to serve. Transfer the chutney into a serving bowl, serve with hot plain rice and ghee. 

* You can accompany this chutney with hot plain rice, ghee, and hot tomato rasam. 

If lemon is not available at your home, you can try this chutney by adding citric acid crystals (nimma uppu). For that, you need to wait for a few minutes take a small bowl add 2-3 spoons of water, add citric acid crystals(nimma uppu, stir few seconds till the crystals dissolved in water). Now add this nimma uppu water to the chutney and mix well.