MIXED VEGETABLE TOVVE (DAL)

A very easy, tasty and nutritious dish that goes well both with rice and chapathis. With just a little bit of effort you can make it very interesting . You can use vegetables like seeme badnekai (chow chow), heerekai (ridge gourd), paduvalkai (snake gourd), sorekai (bottle gourd), carrot etc. Of course you can make it with a single vegetable also.


Ingredients:

1 cup cooked dal (togari or hesaru beLe)
2 cups vegetables, cut into about the size of a peanut
1 medium onion
1" piece ginge
2 green chillies
1 big tomato
8-10 curry leaves
salt to taste
1/2 teaspoon each of mustard and cumin
1 pinch ingu
1 pinch turmeric powder
1/2 lemon
2 teaspoons oil
grated coconut (optional)
1 tablespoon coriander leaves

Procedure:

Pressure cook dal with turmeric.
Microwave the vegetables for 2 minutes. (It is okay if it is not cooked completely. Because it does become softer when you mix with dal and boil again)
Keep Kadai on the stove. Add oil. Add mustard. When it sputters add one by one cumin, curry leaves, hing, ginger, green chillies, and onions. Fry for one minute. Add tomato. When tomato becomes soft, add vegetables, dal and salt to taste. Add grated coconut and boil all together for one minute. Add coriander leaves and turn off the stove.

(You can add the vegetables without cooking also because, these vegetables can also be eater raw and so it can get cooked when you boil them with dal. Even if they dont get cooked also, it is fine because you can feel crisp pieces while you eat and that is also a good feeling)

You can squeeze in fresh lemon individually when you eat.

Serves two if it is with rice , but serves four if you have it with other sabji with chapathi.