Cabbage and Carrot Pappu

What does a girl do when she has carrot and cabbage leftover from her cabbage-carrot zhunka recipe? She makes a dal using the leftovers. I couldn't believe how simple it was to make the cabbage-carrot pappu. I should say that Shammi's post on cabbage-potato kootu inspired me a little. I had already "cooked toor dal" in the refrigerator. So putting this together was a snap.

I cooked the toor dal with a pinch each of hing/asafatida, turmeric powder/pasupu podi, black pepper powder, and salt. Here goes the recipe.

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• 2 cups toordal, cooked
• 2 cup shredded cabbage (packed)
• 1 small onion, chopped roughly
• 3 Indian green chilis/1 jalapeno
• 1 lime sized tamarind, soaked and pulp squeezed
• 1 tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp sambhar/rasam powder
• 1 tsp mustard seeds/aavalu/rai
• 1 tsp cumin seeds/jeelakarra/jeera seeds
• 1 sprig curry leaves/karivepaaku/kadi patha, chopped
• 1 dried red chili, broken into pieces
• 1 pinch asafatida powder/inguva/hing
• 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil/or your favorite oil
• salt, to taste
• coriander leaves, to garnish

Hardware
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• Pressure cooker to to cook the toor dal
• Saucepan
• small fry pan/kadai for the tempering

Method
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• Put the saucepan on medium-high heat, add 1 tsp of oil. Add the onions, chilis fry until they are translucent.
• Add the cabbage and cook for about 5-7 min or until cooked. Add the turmeric powder
• Add the cooked toor dal and stir until dal is heated through and is mixed in with the cabbage. Add the tamarind paste/pulp.
• Add salt and the sambhar/rasam powder and stir. Take the dal off the heat.

Tempering/Tada/Popu
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• Heat the 1 tsp oil in very small fry pan.
• Add the broken red chili pieces, jeera and mustard seeds. After they pop, add the asafatida powder.
• Add the chopped curry leaves and turn off heat.

Add the tempering to the prepared dal above. Add chopped coriander leaves at the end.

Serving Suggestion: Serve hot with rice,puri,chapathi or paratha.