Tomato pappu recipe or Andhra Tomato Dal is made with tomatoes, toor dal and spices which adds a tangy taste to the dal. This dal is perfect to mix with hot rice and ghee.
Tomato Pappu Recipe
Hope you all are getting ready to enjoy your weekend..I have just started to do it..Today we had an awesome breakfast with chapatti and green peas curry. It was delicious and good for my diet. I really loved it after 5 days of fruits and vegetables diet..The good impact from that diet is, it controlled my hunger and reduced my appetite, which is really great.
Coming to today's recipe it is a healthy dal which is flavoured with tomatoes, cumin and all kinds of yummy stuffs. I can’t tell you how good it is for you. At the same time it taste heavenly.
Ingredients for Tomato Pappu
- Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu / Split Pigeon Peas – 1 cup
- Tomatoes – 2 large chopped
- Green Chilli – 1 slit
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku – 1 tsp
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 tsp
- Fenugreek Seeds / Methi / Vendayam – ½ tsp
- Dry Red Chilli – 1
- Curry leaves – 1 spring
- Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp
- Chilli Powder – 1 tsp
- Coriander Powder / Malli Podi– 1 tblspn
- Tomato – 1 small chopped
How to Make Tomato pappu
- Wash dal in several changes of water and let it soak for 15 mins.
- Now take in a pot and add water, tomatoes and green chilli and bring it to a boil. Cover and simmer for 20-25 mins until the dal is cooked completely..It should be completely mushy.
- Now add salt and mix well..Keep this in simmering..Adjust the water level if you need..
- Heat a tawa or kadai. Add oil in it. Add mustard seeds , cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, dry red chilli, curry leaves, turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder and tomatoes. Mix this for a min.
- Pour this seasoning over the dal and mix well.
- Let it simmer for 5 more minutes.
- Serve with a bed of rice or roti.
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Tomato Pappu Recipe | Tomato Dal Recipe | How to Make Andhra Tomato Daal
Ingredients
- Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu / Split Pigeon Peas – 1 cup
- Tomatoes – 2 large chopped
- Green Chilli – 1 slit
- Salt to taste
- Water – 4 cups
- For Seasoning:
- Oil / Ghee – 1 tblspn
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku – 1 tsp
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 tsp
- Fenugreek Seeds / Methi / Vendayam – ½ tsp
- Dry Red Chilli – 1
- Curry leaves – 1 spring
- Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp
- Chilli Powder – 1 tsp
- Coriander Powder / Malli Podi– 1 tblspn
- Tomato – 1 small chopped
Instructions
- Wash dal in several changes of water and let it soak for 15 mins.
- Now take in a pot and add water, tomatoes and green chilli and bring it to a boil. Cover and simmer for 20-25 mins until the dal is cooked completely..It should be completely mushy.
- Now add salt and mix well..Keep this in simmering..Adjust the water level if you need..
- Heat a tawa or kadai. Add oil in it. Add mustard seeds , cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, dry red chilli, curry leaves, turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder and tomatoes. Mix this for a min.
- Pour this seasoning over the dal and mix well.
- Let it simmer for 5 more minutes.
- Serve with a bed of rice or roti.
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Tomato Pappu Step by Step
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Take dal, tomatoes and green chilli in a kadai |
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| add water |
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| bring it to a boil |
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| cover and simmer until cooked |
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| add salt |
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| and mix well |
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| now make seasoning..heat oil |
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| add mustard and cumin seeds |
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| in goes fenugreek seeds |
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| dry red chilli and curry leaves |
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| add turmeric powder |
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| chilli and coriander powder |
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| and mix well |
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| add tomatoes |
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| and toss well |
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| add it to the dal |
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| and mix well |
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| Serve |
Ashwin Baindur
Thanks for your easy and yummy recipes! Can you share your recipe for Parapu from snake gourd please? Thanks!
Kaveri
This tomato dal is one of our family favorites..would love to have with rice and a dollop of ghee
Meena
good one. somehow i didnt see this post up on my blog dashboard.
and err aarthi what about khatai i mean no nimbu or is tomatoes enough for khatai.
if so i would make this one and u used no onion or garlic.
new variety of having dal
good one aarthi
faseela
yummy kulambu
maha
my fav one..my mom is an expert in making this.......loved it
ANU
this is my all time fav though!:)
Deeksha
Dal looks very tempting. Yum Yum.
kanan
tomato dal looks delicious. I can smell aroma here.
Torviewtoronto
delicious looking flavourful dal
Preeti Garg
love this....healthy....yummy too
Hema
Wow, delicious kulambu Aarthi..
VineelaSiva
Its yummy and comforting dal.
Aarthi
@Meena
Tomatoes have enough sourness to give for this dish...so no need to add any more sour agents...if you wish you can add a small squeeze of lemon juice...
The Yogi Vegetarian
Lovely dal recipe...bookmarked 😉
Gayathri Anand
Yummy Dhal ..would love to have it with hot rice or Chapathi
Anonymous
I'm not an expert when it comes to this. Didn't even know this was possible. Useful read, appreciate your posting this.
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Anonymous
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Aarthi
@AnonymousYes i have deleted those blogs
sugi
This is easy recipies.