Tomato Pappu Recipe | Tomato Pamina Saaru

Tomato Pappu Recipe | Tomato Pamina Saaru - EverythingTraditional

Today I have come up with a simple and tasty and tangy tomato pappu saaru or tomato pamina saaru as we usually call. In Tamil it is Tomato paruppu masiyal. This a very simple recipe which can be cooked in 15 to 20 minutes. Wash and place all the ingredients in the cooker cook them to soft and mash to smooth mass. Then add thalimpu / thadka / tempering with cumin and mustard. 

Pappu or Dal is the everyday element in our Indian cooking be it North or South. In South India we prefer dal / lenthils, dry beans any sort as the main source of protein to be included everyday. 

In South or North we have  many recipes with dal or lenthils, in south sambar, masiyal / mosoppu, thovve, rasam, obbottu , sugginaunde, obbottu saaru, bassaru, upsaaru are some of the traditional recipes made from toor dal / togari bele / lenthil. 

Tomato pappu saaru is not thick as we get pappu in andra style hotels but this is slightly to sambar consistency, to mix with hot rice. This also is good when served for chapati or roti, dosa. 

All time favorite dal recipe side dished with any stir fry vegetable or egg chilly fry or just papad and curd chilli. This is also most liked by kids. 

Tomato Pappu Saaru | Tomato Pamina Saaru   Cuisine: Indian / South Indian Cook time: 20 minutes

Ingredients for Tomato Pappu Saaru  Toor Dal / Tugari bele   - 1 small cup. Onion - 1 small  Green chillies  - 3 to 4 Tomatoes - 4 small  Garlic - 8 to 9  pods Turmeric powder - less than 1/4 teaspoon  For Seasoning  Oil - 2 teaspoons Mustard - 1/4 teaspoon Jeera / Cummin - 1/4 teaspoon Red chillies - 2 Asafoetida / hing - 1/4 teaspoon

Instructions   Wash toor dal and add to cooker pan along with this add tomatoes, green chillies, onions, garlic and turmeric   Add required water and cook for 3 to 4 whistles or until toor dal is cooked well Once cooked, separate the water from cooked dal and mash the dal and other ingredients - and then add the removed water to that Heat a pan with 2 teaspoons oil add mustard, jeera / cumin, red chillies, hing  Add the mashed dal along with water Add salt and tamarind extract, and mix well  Cook for 5 minutes and then remove from flame Tomato pappu saaru is ready to be served

Note:

Can also add curry leaves and finely chopped coriander 

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You might also like some of the traditional simple recipes Moolangi pachadi, Majjige saaru, soft akki roti., Simple Beans Stir Fry- Palya

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How to make Tomato Pappu Saaru | Tomato Pamina Saaru with Step-by-step pictures

1. Wash toor dal and add to cooker pan along with this add tomatoes, green chillies, onions, garlic and turmeric 

2. Add required water and cook for 3 to 4 whistles or until toor dal is cooked well

3. Once cooked, separate the water from cooked dal and mash the dal and other ingredients - and then add the removed water to that

4. Heat a pan with 2 teaspoons oil add mustard, jeera / cumin, red chillies, hing 

5. Add the mashed dal along with water

6. Add salt and tamarind extract, and mix well 

7. Cook for 5 minutes and then remove from flame

8. Tomato pappu saaru is ready to be served