3D Curry

3D Curry

3D curry - means 3 dhall curry. This curry is made weekly twice and is power packed with the goodness of 3 lentils namely greeen gram, red gram and horse gram. Let me put it colloquially, thoor dhall, green gram dhall aka pacha payir and the kholu paruppu.

This curry goes well with roti and white rice. All ingredients in this recipe is mandatory fore the perfect blend of flavor. You will come back for this recipe again and again once you taste it.

Ingredients for the 3D curry:

Equal ratio of 3 dhall is a must for the perfect taste.

Thoor dhall- 1/4 cup (Red gram)
Kholu paruppu - 1/4 cup (Horse gram)
Pachapayir - 1/4 cup (Greengram)
Water - 2 and a quater cup (3 times dhall)
Tomato - 1 (chopped)
Green Chilly - 1 no
Red chilly - 1 no
Cumin - 1 tsp
Ginger paste - 1 tsp
Garlic- 6 pods
Turmeric- 1/2 tsp
Castor oil -1/4 tsp (or any oil)
Salt - as per taste

For seasoning:
Oil- 2 tsp
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Onion- 3 tbsp (finely chopped)
Red chilly - 1
Curry leaves - few
Coriander leaves - 2 tbsp (finely chopped)

Method of cooking the 3 D curry:

Soak the 3 dhall for minimum half an hour to 2 hours maximum.
Drain the soaked water and rinse with fresh water.
Add the soaked dhall, red and green chilly, cumin, ginger, garlic, turmeric to a pressure pan.
Add water, turmeric and oil.
Pressure cook for 10 whistles on a small burner high flame.
Once whistles are complete, switch off the stove and let the pressure come down.
Open the pressure cooker and check if dhall is cooked well. add salt now.
Either using a hand blender or mixer blend the ingredients for hardly 5 seconds.
A hand mixer can also be used. Please be careful as the mix is boiling hot.
I use Choice plus mixer grinder which has a very slow speed meant for cooked food mashing.
Once that is done. In a tadka pan add oil and season with mustard, onion curryleaves and red chilly.
Add the seasonings to the dhall and coriander leaves.
Mix well and serve hot with rice or roti.