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A nutritious sweet stir-fry made with green mung beans and jaggery. A perfect sweet neivediyam/offering for any festive occasion. Check out how to prepare this sweet green gram sundal / patchai payaru inippu sundal in both instant pot and stove-top open pot method with step-wise pictures.
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The festival season is about to begin. Yes, Navaratri is right around the corner, so before posting all the sundal recipes, I thought of sharing more about the Navratri festival, how we celebrate and also about the Golu or Kolu.
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I wish a very Happy Navratri to all my readers. I cannot skip from posting a sundal recipe during Navratri time. Today I am sharing a semi-homemade sundal recipe prepared with canned beans. Here comes the tri color and tri beans (Red Kidney beans, Cannellini beans, Black beans) sundal that can be prepared in a jiffy especially during weekdays as there is no soaking and pressure cooking involved. And oh yeah, if you forget to soak the beans for sundal, this is your best bet. This is such a healthy and protein rich snack that can be prepared all year round irrespective of the festivities.
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This recipe was sitting in my drafts for the past one week. We usually prepare this sweet for Saraswathi Poojai and wanted to post before that. Why I didn’t post then? Err. It’s because of the name. In Tamil we say சீயம் but in English when I was looking for the correct spelling, I got so confused. My Tamil Quill Pad would have cried for sure as I was trying out all the possible spelling combinations and finally gave up and decided to use all possible ones. That’s why my recipe title is like that.
It is yet another two in one recipe. All you need is half cup of idly/dosa batter and coconut jaggery pooranam for the filling and of course oil for frying. I have written a separate post about this idly dosa batter so not going to talk about that again. But coming to the filling, you can try various combinations here – Coconut filling, Ellu/sesame seeds filling, coconut and channa dhal filling. The key thing here is that these fillings should be thick/semi-hard in consistency so that you can make small balls out of it. Make sure that these balls are hard enough so that it doesn’t break while dipping them in the batter.
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Today I am sharing one of my favorite sundal recipe. It is the Manga – Thenga Pattani Sundal or Peas Sundal with raw mango and grated coconut. This sundal is a blend of all flavors. I prepared it with frozen peas, so no soaking no pressure cooking. If you forget to soak legumes or if time is pressing, this sundal is the best bet.
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Navratri always calls for different varieties of sundal. Earlier I posted a sweet sundal, and now it’s the time for savory one and that too with my favorite bean – black eyed peas. I know garbanzo beans is the king of all sundals, but before posting that I would like to post my personal favorite. This is called as Karamani Sundal in Tamil.
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