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\n<\/small>Gongura<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n
These fresh gongura leaves came all the way from Houston, Texas. Lovingly picked and packed from their backyard garden by our dear friends. I have been longing to get such fresh gongura for a while now and I felt like my prayers were answered. Yes, I love the tangy taste of gongura that much.<\/p>\n
The following is one of my favorite gongura preparations. Gongura, toor dal and green chilli, my mother’s recipe, pure gongura love.<\/p>\n
Gongura Pappu<\/strong> Toor dal -3\/4 cup Rinse toor dal. Take them in a vessel or pressure-cooker. Add gongura, green chilli and shallot. Also turmeric and two cups of water. Close the lid. Cook the dal, until it reaches fall-apart stage. Add about half teaspoon of salt and gently mash the cooked ingredients together to smooth consistency. Now, infuse the dal with tarka or talimpu, where natural ingredients that are good for well-being are added in small quantity. Daily vitamin dose, Indian way.<\/p>\n 1-tablespoon ghee Heat ghee in a vessel until a curry leaf tossed in it sizzles. Lower the heat to medium. Add the curry leaves, garlic, dried red chilli, chana dal and urad dal, in the order listed. Toast to pale brown. Then add the cumin and mustard seeds. When mustard seeds start to pop, add the gongura dal. Mix. Serve hot. Great on its own, and also with rice or roti for anytime of the day.<\/p>\n Notes: Gongura These fresh gongura leaves came all the way from Houston, Texas. Lovingly picked and packed from their backyard garden by our dear friends. I have been longing to get such fresh gongura for a while now and I felt like my prayers were answered. Yes, I love the tangy taste of gongura that much. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authentic-andhra","category-gongura","category-toor-dal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(for two or four people, for four to two meals)<\/small><\/p>\n
\nFresh gongura leaves – about 4 cups, tightly packed
\nIndian variety, small green chillies – 8 to 10
\nShallot or red onion – cut to big chunks, about half cup
\nTurmeric – ½ teaspoon<\/em><\/p>\n
\n2 sprigs curry leaves, 2 garlic cloves, slivered,
\n4 dried red chilli pieces, ½ teaspoon chana dal and urad dal each
\n\u00c2\u00bc teaspoon each – cumin and mustard seeds<\/em> <\/p>\n![\"Gongura](\"\/mahanandi\/images\/gongura\/gongurapappucopyrightedimage2.jpg\")
\n<\/small>Andhra Love ~ Gongura Pappu and Mango<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n
\nGongura is available at Indian grocery shops during summer season.
\nThis dal doesn’t need tamarind or lemon because of gongura’s potent tangy taste.
\nIf you try this recipe, join and share your photos of gongura pappu at Mahanandi Flickr Pool<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"