Ingredients:

1 cup toor dal

9 oz spinach chopped

1 small onion chopped

2 medium tomatoes chopped

7 green chillies slit length wise

2 cloves of garlic crushed

2 red chillies broken

1/4 tsp turmeric

1/2 tsp jeera

1/2 tsp mustard seeds

6 tsp oil

Salt to taste

Method:

• Pressure cook the dal with spinach and tomato upto one whistle and keep it aside until the pressure is gone.
• Heat the oil.
• Add jeera, mustard seeds and red chillies.
• After they splutter, add onions and green chillies.
• Fry until onion becomes translucent and add garlic.
• Fry for few seconds and add turmeric.
• Add the tampering and salt to the dal.
• Bring it to a boil.
• If the dal is too thick, add 1/3 cup water.
• Enjoy with hot rice in this cold weather. 

Ingredients:

1 cup moong dal

1 big bunch of spinach chopped or 9 ounces chopped

6 tbsp onion

4 cloves of garlic chopped

5 small chillies slit length wise

1/2 tbsp jeera

1/2 tbsp mustard seeds

1 red chilli broken

1 tbsp chilli powder

1/4 tsp turmeric

Salt to taste

7 tbsp of oil

Spinach pappu

 Method:

• Soak the moong dal overnight.
• Heat the oil.
• Add jeera, mustard seeds and red chillies.
• Add onions and green chillies.
• Fry until onions are translucent.
• Add garlic and fry for a few seconds.
• Add turmeric.
• Drain water from the moong dal and add it.
• Add spinach, 1/3rd cup water and salt.
• It takes 15mts to cook the dal.
• After 15mts add chilli powder.
• Keep on the low heat for 10 mts.
• Enjoy with chapathi or rice with rasam or pacchi pulusu.

Here is the link to rasam recipe:

http://sumikitchen.wordpress.com/2008/09/06/hot-tomato-rasam/

Here is the link to pacchi pulusu recipe:

http://sumikitchen.wordpress.com/category/tamarind/page/2/