Paalakoora Pappu - All Kinds

This is one of my favourite pappu. Very simple to make and yet very tasty to eat.
There are many ways to make it. Here is one of it

1. You can cook the palak and toor daal in pressure cooker together. Make sure you add more spinach / palak so that you get a very good taste of the greens.
2. Take off the daal and spinach from the cooker, it should be green in color.
3. Take ghee in a pan and add mustard seeds, jeera and hing to it. Once they sputter add turmeric, green chillie paste and add the cooked daal and spinach and mix well. Take off heat and its ready to eat with rice.

Also while seasoning you can add garlic if you like. This gives a good punch to the daal.

Another way to make it.
1. Take ghee in a pan and add seasning mustard seeds, jeera, hing and turmeric. Once they sputter add greeh chillies paste. Add chopped spinach and add some water. cook well in med flame. once the spinash becomes tender and becomes into a green paste, add cooked toor daal.
2. Extract fresh lemon juice and add to the daal now.

Both these ways the daal taste a little different. i like the second way more and usually make it this way.

I am adding one more of my favos. I make this usually when I call guests home. Palakoora - Mamidi pappu.

1. Basically but green mango into small peices after peeling it.
2. After seasoning with mustard, jeera and hing in ghee, add turmeric and mango peices, chopped palak. Add green chillie paste also.
3. Cook on med flame till the veggies are tender, add cooked toor daal.
4. Add salt and mix well.

This is a great dish which is sour and spicy. If the mango is sweet, the dish turns out sweet as well. I love it when it is sweet and spicy!!