Gongura Sanagapappu Kura

Hi Friends

Today I prepared new dish with Gongura with a combination of channa dal and peanuts. I think every body knows that gongura varieties like gongura pachdi, pappu, talimpu gongura are very popular in Andhra Pradesh. It is used as souring agent in vegetables and even in non veg also.

This dish which I am posting is little bit new and with little variation I have prepared with minimum ingredients. Definetly you will love this humble gongura pappu. I have tasted it in my brothers son's reception in Hyderabad. I have tasted this pappu with jawar roti and with hot white rice. Mouth watering curry. From that day I was eagerly waiting to post in my blog and wanted to share with my blogger friends.

I love to cook and crazy in cooking new verities of dishes. This is must make recipe. If you have not tried before, give it a try today.

OK. Let us go to prepare. 

Ingredients

• Red stemmed gongura leaves                      1 cup
• Channa dal                                                    fist
• Peanuts (raw)                                              fist
• Green chillies                                                6 to 7 chopped
• Onion                                                            1 chopped 
• Salt to taste

For Popu

• Oil
• Mustard seeds  
• Garlic cloves                                               4 to 5  crushed
• Hing                                                             pinch

How I did it

1. Soak channa dal for 30 minutes. Keep aside.
2. Rinse gongura leaves.
3. Take all ingredients except the ones 'for popu' into pressure cooker, add sufficient water and pressure cook till 5 to 6 whistles.
4. Open the lid. See channa dal and peanuts cooked well in gongura without breaking.
5. Mix gently with laddle.
6. Take popu pan and make the popu with the ingredients listed under popu. Add this to prepared gongura dish.
7. See the aroma and flavor fills the kitchen. Nice flavor.
8. Transfer into a bowl and see the taste.

My Notes

• Instead of peanuts you can use white chick peas (kabuli Channa)also.
• No need of soaking peanuts.
• As chnnadal and peanuts cook in sour gongura it tastes little sour and tastes good.

 Nutritional Info

Peanuts are rich in energy. Provides our body with essential vitamins, which helps regulating metabolism, converting fat into energy.
Channa dal contail high proteins well as dietary fiber that aids digestion.
Gongura leaves are rich in calcium and helps in improving bone health.