Moong Sprouts Curry | Moong sprouts sabzi | Sprouted Green Gram Curry

Moong Sprouts Curry | Moong sprouts sabzi | Sprouted Green Gram Curry with stepwise pictures . Moong can be easily sprouted like this. I often make this curry as a sidedish for chapatis for dinner. This is a quick and easy recipe and I plan to make it when I feel lazy to cut veggies . My kids like to have this curry along with yoghurt, as sidedish for chapati. My son says it as ‘ payaru thayiru ‘ 😀  Pachai Payaru is green gram in tamil .  Thayiru is the tamil word for curd or yoghurt.

Here is my recipe for Moong sprouts curry

Ingredients:

• Moong sprouts  –  1 cup
• Onion – 1
• Ginger – half inch piece
• Garlic – 5 small pods or 2 large pods
• Green chilly – 2
• Jeera / Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
• Tomato – 2
• Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
• Chilly powder – 1 tsp
• Coriander powder – 1 tsp
• Garam Masala powder  – 1 tsp
• Kasuri Methi – a handful
• Oil – 2 tbsp
• Salt – to taste

Method:

1. Sprout the moong dal previous night.
2. Grind green chilly, ginger and garlic.
   
   
3. Add roughly chopped onions to it and pulse it , but do not make it like a paste.
4. In a pressure pan, heat oil, and temper with jeera.
   
   
5. Add the ginger, garlic, green chilly and onion that has been grinded.
6. Add salt and saute this for a while, meanwhile grind the tomatoes .
   
   
7. Then add the tomato paste and saute it for a minute.
8. Add the turmeric powder, chilly powder, coriander powder and garam masala powder.
   Saute it well till the oil separates.
9. Add the sprouted moong with half cup of water and a handful of kasuri methi leaves crushed.
10. Pressure cook for 2 whistles and switch off.
11. After pressure subsides, open and stir well and serve.
    Moong sprouts curry is ready to be served with rotis or rice.

 

Notes:

• Adding kasuri methi is optional, but I recommend adding it. It gives a nice flavor to this curry.
• Moong sprouts are also readily available in supermarkets, but I feel its quite easy to sprout it at home.
• You can replace moong sprouts with other sprouts like black channa dal or white channa in this same recipe.