Green Grams
Sprouts Gashi.
This is a special dish of Udupi called “Gashi”. It is a
sweet and sour dish without toor dhal. We can make gashi using green gram (as
it is or sprouted) or any of the seeds like kadale (brown variety), peas
(fresh, dried green or yellow ones), soya beans, lobia (alasande beeja) etc. All
seeds used need to be soaked in water over night.
Ingredients:
1) Sprouted green
grams – ½ to 3/4 cup. 2) Tamarind – ½ lime size
3) Jaggery – 1/2 tsp. 4) For
Masala – Jeera seeds – 1 tsp 5) Red
chillies (Byadgi) 3-4. 6) Coconut
gratings 3 tablespoons. 7) Turmeric powder ½ tsp 8) salt – as needed. 9) Green chilli – one, optional. 10) For tadka
– mustard – ¾ tsp, red chilli -1, curry leaves few, cooking oil – 2 tsps, asafoetida
-1/2 tsp
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| Ingredients: Green Gram Sprouts, red chillies, curry leaves, coconut, green chilli, jaggery, tamarind,turmeric powder, jeera seeds, salt. And Tadka items seperately. |
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Method:
In ½ tsp of cooking oil (coconut oil) mildly roast red
chillies and finally add jeera seeds and coconut gratings and put off flame. Cool it and grind with some water to
fine paste and keep it aside.
Dissolve tamarind in water and dilute it to one cup and boil
it in a kadai till raw smell goes. Add jaggery and stir to dissolve and add
turmeric powder also. Add sprouted green grams and cook on low flame for 2-3
minutes. Add salt as needed. Now add the masala paste and again bring ti boil
on a low flame. Test taste it and if needed
add more jaggery or salt as needed. Finally add one green chilli, obliquely cut
into 2 or 3 pieces (to be squeezed and used later while eating, if anyone
desires the dish to be more spicy). Transfer
it to a serving dish and garnish with mustard, red chillies, curry leaves and asafoetida
powder.
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| Boiling Tamarind water. |
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| Add Jaggery & Sprouts and cook. |
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| Add ground masala & salt and then green chilli. |
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| After Tadka, ready to serve.. |
Eat with hot white rice with some ghee, if preferred or with
curd rice or with Idli, Dosa or chapathi.
Cooking time – 15
to 20 minutes. Serves 2-3 persons.
