Ingredients : Different grains(garbonzo beans, peanuts, channa daal, lima beans etc as desired...just a handful of all together), salt, urad dhal(3 tsp), channa daal(1 tsp), whole pepper(1 tsp), dry red pepper(2/3), dry grated coconut(2 tsp), tamarind extract or tamcon paste, jaggery or sugar(1 tsp)
If using
dry grains, soak in water for a couple of hours and pressure cook.
If using cooked beans, drain out the water.
Can be
done using a handful of one particular grain or a combination of the above.
Grind
together channadaal, whole pepper, red pepper and coconut into a coarse
paste(need not be smooth).
In a hard
bottomed vessel, saute dry mustard seeds.
Add the
tamarind extract or tamcon dissolved in water and salt and let it boil
for sometime.
Add the
grains and let them absorb the taste from the tamarind water.
After
this boils for 5-7 minutes, dissolve the ground paste in water and
add to the mixture.
Add curry
leaves, boil further for a minute with a spoon of jaggery or sugar.
If very
watery, add a spoon of rice flour dissolved in a spoon of water to
gain thickness.
Mode of
eating :
Mix with
plain cooked rice and have as maincourse.