Memories: It varies from region to region and depends on which God they consider as their main deity . In my native place (dad's home town), the major Goddess is Bagavathy Amman and so Navarathiri is celebrated to honor the ladies of a family. The unmarried girls are considered as Goddesses and offered many gifts while participating in the function. In my dad's family the aim of the function is to welcome the daughters who are given in marriage and to pamper the homesick girls , of course with her husband too:) Some do the fasting the whole day (9 days and the 10 th day is full of feasts) , powder the rice manually (using ural + ulakkai), make rice flour lamps (mavillakku) , sweet dumplings (kolukkattai) and in the evening there will be singing and poojas and a lot of yummy goodies to all:) .
Konda kadalai sundal. |
Ingredients:
White or red chick peas - 100 gm (1 coffee mug full)coconut oil - 1 tsp
shredded coconut - 2 tbsp
dry red chillies - 3
curry leaf - 2 sprig
mustard seed - 1 tsp
salt - to taste
water (to cook) - to immerse and 1 cup standing over.
Method:
Soak the chick peas over night.Fast Soaking can be done in hot water for 6 to 8 hours along with some baking soda. The peas will double in size after soaking. The easiest way is to buy a canned one, but I prefer the home cooked ones better .
Remove the soaked water (must). Wash again and add some more water. Pressure cook the peas with more water to stand above the peas. Let it whistle once, then reduce the flame and cook in low flame for 15 minutes. Release pressure and take out. Add salt, drain the water.
Heat oil in a wok. Splutter the mustard seeds. Reduce flame and add the red chillies, curry leaves and wait till the chillies turn dark red. Add the cooked channa and stir fry till it looses all the water. Check the salt and put lot of freshly grated coconut. Switch off immediately.
Serving suggestion:
Serve as snack with tea / coffee.It is my habit to make some chundal with variety rice like puli saatham (Yummy!).
This is a very healthy protein rich snack with nearly 100 calories per cup.
We can make many chundals like this from various lentils like whole green gram (pachai payaru), channa dhal (kadalai paruppu), moon dhal (paasi paruppu), cow peas (thattam payaru), field beans (mochai /val) etc.
18 comments:
Very nice. Used to make it regularly.
Love this..healthy snack.
kadalai sundal looks super Viki. I make for tea time snack.
yummy sundal...
Looks simple, healthy ad delicious….yum. I love it.
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very healthy and delicious....
Healthy and delicious Sundal.
Love sundal anytime, my fav..
Healhty and filling snack..
mmmmmmmmm yummy anytime i can have this..
These chickpeas look absolutely tasty!
Healthy and yummy sundal.
Dear Viki
How are you?
This is a very new dish for me.I am going to try it. I can boil the peas properly now. Previously it used to be disaster, over boiling ha ha
have a nice week
Simple and all time fave. snack.
Slurp! It looks very tempting! Yummy! Great for snack time!
yummy..
simply delicious...
nice sundal viki
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