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Palakura Pappu - Spinach Dal

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Palakura pappu, potato-beans stir fry, bottle gourd pachadi with rice ~ Our lunch

Palakura pappu is a delicious heartening dal using spinach greens - a classic Andhra pappu kura. Its full of protein, nutritious and you will enjoy preparing it because its easy, quick and your kitchen will be filled with an aromatic fresh flavor of spinach simmering with tuvar dal that absorbs the seasoning beautifully.

Spinach, palak, palakura

Palakura Pappu Recipe

Preparation: 20 mts

Serves 3-4 persons

Cuisine: Andhra

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Ingredients:

1 small cup tur dal/red gram dal/kandi pappu

2 cups chopped and tightly packed palakura/palak/spinach

1 onion, chopped

big pinch turmeric pwd

2-3 green chillis, slit lengthwise

1/2 tsp chopped ginger

salt to taste

1 1/2 cups water, approx

For seasoning/poppu/tadka:

1/2 tsp mustard seeds

1/2 tsp cumin seeds

1/2 tsp urad dal/minappa pappu/split gram dal (optional)

3-4 garlic cloves, crushed

2 dry red chillis, de-seed and tear

10-12 fresh curry leaves

2-3 tsps oil

1 In a pressure cooker, place dal, palak leaves, onions, green chillis, ginger and turmeric pwd. Add 1 1/2 to 2 cups of water and pressure cook upto 2 whistles. If cooking over stove top, cook till the dal is almost cooked.
2 Heat oil in a heavy bottomed vessel, add mustards seeds and as they jump around, add cumin seeds, urad dal, garlic, red chillis and curry leaves and stir fry for half a minute.
3 Add this to the pressure cooked dal along with salt and combine. Cook on slow to medium flame for 5-7 mts without lid or till you get the consistency of your choice.
4 Serve with white rice and a stir fry dish.

Note:

I sometimes prepare it differently by frying onions and palak leaves along with the tempering and combine the cooked dal with the fried onion-palak mixture.

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By sailu • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: All Recipes, Andhra Recipes, Dals & Legumes, Greens-Leafy Vegetables, Indian Lentil Recipes, Vegan recipes

25 Responses »

  1. sarita on July 7th, 2008 at 8:10 am:

    I savour all Andra recipes, and this particular one is my favourite.

  2. Leon on July 7th, 2008 at 8:21 am:

    Looks Yummy:)

  3. Sarah on July 7th, 2008 at 8:47 am:

    Looks good

  4. Medhaa on July 7th, 2008 at 9:18 am:

    Lovely, I made the same thing with whole moong dal and posted it a few days back. Never tried it with tur dal. Will try next time

  5. Sandhya on July 7th, 2008 at 9:20 am:

    Thanks so much shailja for posting this recipe. Will try soon :) Is bottle gourd pachadi same as ridge gourd pachadi?

    The preparation is slightly different for bottle gourd pachadi (lauki/dudhi chutney). Ridge gourd chutney (turai chutney) I have blogger earlier, Sandhya.

  6. A&N on July 7th, 2008 at 9:29 am:

    I love Palak Dal, Sailu :) Good you reminded me. I should make some soon!

  7. Cham on July 7th, 2008 at 11:12 am:

    Simple and good one the palak dhal :)

  8. Prema Sridharan on July 7th, 2008 at 11:19 am:

    Hi Sailu, Fantastic recipe indeed! More tantalising was the imagination of mustard seeds trying to “jump around” instead of crackling. But truly an awesome recipe. Thanks a ton!

  9. Sujatha on July 7th, 2008 at 12:21 pm:

    Yummy looking! I love palak dal and is one of my comfort foods…

  10. kalva on July 7th, 2008 at 1:20 pm:

    Yes.., Sailu my mom does the fisrt way with everything presuure cooked together. and MIL makes the second with cooked dal…

  11. Maninas on July 8th, 2008 at 3:34 am:

    Sounds gorgeous! I love dals!

  12. alka on July 8th, 2008 at 5:55 am:

    Hi sailaja,
    This looks like Sindhi saibhaji(spinach)with few variations,like the tadka part
    But i can imagine the flavor of spinach with these yummy variations
    Btw ,there is something on Sindhirasoi for u,wish u will pick it up
    regards

  13. deepika on July 8th, 2008 at 9:41 am:

    Hi Sailu,

    I am a great fan of your reciepes..I myself love cooking variety foods at my home.Your Paalakura Pappu looks Yummy..
    You can try the same reciepe with smaller variations to get Telangana Style Palakura Pappu.

    1)add 2 tsp tamarind paste instead of Ginger.
    2)In Seasoning, add pinch of Hing also.

    Let me know if it is interesting.

    Bye..
    Deepika.

  14. Sathya Sai Ram on July 8th, 2008 at 10:46 am:

    A really mouth watering dish.
    I feel like having it now….

    Sailu, you really have the passion
    for cooking & presenting them on
    this site.

  15. R.Punitha on July 8th, 2008 at 12:50 pm:

    Hai Sailu, i’m Punitha.
    Your recipe looks so good and tastes very very nice….
    My sons enjoyed the recipe and appreciated me….
    Really,the whole credit goes to
    YOU Sailu…. Thank you a lot.
    May God be with you…..

  16. Miri on July 8th, 2008 at 11:01 pm:

    This is my favourite way of eating paalak, thanks for posting!

  17. Lakshmi on July 8th, 2008 at 11:02 pm:

    Hi Sailu, pappu looks good. I tried another variety pappu from your blog and it was awesome. Thanks for sharing.

  18. bhavani on July 9th, 2008 at 9:29 am:

    Hello Sailaja,
    Seems we have some intuition. whenever I think of some dish and feel about a recipe it appears in my inbox. great allam pacchadi and idli podi also.
    Thanks a lot for wonderful recipes

  19. shankari on July 9th, 2008 at 10:45 am:

    Hi Sailu

    I made this dish for an Andhra friend of ours yesterday, who is pregnant. She was extremely happy and enjoyed the dish thoroughly. The tadka with garlic is awesome.

    Thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe, it made my day, seeing a smile on my friend’s face

  20. Mallika on July 9th, 2008 at 3:59 pm:

    Love this, looks delicious and very simple.

  21. Ramki on July 9th, 2008 at 7:13 pm:

    This technique of cooking greens / vegetables with dal is something Tamil cuisine sorely misses ! Never having eaten dal cooked this way in Tamilnadu, I was blown away by my first taste of Palakura Pappu - Avakkai combo.

  22. Palakura Pappu - Spinach Dal on July 15th, 2008 at 1:35 pm:

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  24. Bharathi on July 16th, 2008 at 12:00 pm:

    Hi Sailu,

    I am a big fan of your website.I have tried many varities from your web site.I also make palak dal in the same way except i add some tamarind and hing in the tadka.

    Thanks for sharing your receipes.Can i get a receipe for bisibelebath?

    Thanks
    Bharathi

    Here’s the link for bisi bele bath recipe, Bharathi.

  25. Maninas on August 28th, 2008 at 3:38 pm:

    Hi Sailu. I made this dal for dinner - we loved it! many thanks for the recipe!

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