Moong bean curry
It is vegan, simple, delicious and easy to make curry. Include this gut healthy nutritious moong in your diet through this recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup sprouted moong
- 4 cups water to cook
- 4 green chillies
- Salt to taste
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1/4 tsp mustard seeds
- 8-10 curry leaves
- Pinch of asafoetida
- 1/4 th tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp roasted cumin powder
- 1 tsp red chili powder
- 1 tbsp chopped ginger
- Chopped cilantro
- 2 tbsp Lemon Juice
Instructions
- Rinse the moong with water 2 times
- Soak the moong overnight in water. Water should be 4 times the quantity of moong as moong will swell after soaking
- Drain the water and Keep moong aside for 4-6 hours for germination.
- Take 1 cup of moong in a pressure cooker and add 4 cups of water, 2 green chilies slit and little salt for taste.
- Cook moong for 1-2 whistles only. Do not overcook.
- take a pan and add oil.
- Once oil is hot add mustard seeds,
- After they splutter add 2 sliced green chilies, chopped ginger, asafoetida, curry leaves and roast this for 1-2 minutes.
- To this add the turmeric powder, red chili powder, roasted cumin seed powder, add some water and cook all the spices together.
- After 2-3 minutes add the cooked moong to this.
- Stir well. Add salt as per taste.
- Stir well and let it cook for another 2-3 minutes until it absorbs all the flavor.
- add the chopped cilantro, squeeze the lemon on it.
- Stir well and serve hot with rice, roti, bhakari