Name: Dosakaya Pappu Recipe | Yellow Cucumber Dal
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: Toor Dal – 1 bowl; Water – 2 bowls; Dosakaya/ Yellow cucumber – 1 No.; Onions – 1 bowl; Tomatoes – 1 bowl; Turmeric powder – 1 tbsp.; Green chillies – 5 No.; Red chilli powder – 1 tbsp.; Salt – 1 tbsp.; Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp.; Curry leaves – 1 tbsp.; Oil – 2 tbsp.; Fenugreek seeds – ¼ tbsp.; Mustard seeds – ¼ tbsp.; Cumin seeds – ¼ tbsp.; Garlic – 20 No. (crushed); Dry red chillies – 4 No.; Curry leaves – 2 tbsp.; Asafetida – a pinch

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Dosakaya Pappu Recipe is one of the easy and loved foods of Telugu speaking people. In Andhra people make use of kandipappu (lentils) or pesarapappu (moong dal) to make dal recipes as they are rich in protein and give soothing or easy to digest.

Whatever the occasion it is, people make sambar or rasam as they are light on the stomach. As a tradition people love to make recipes in combination with lentils. People sometimes add cucumber or sometimes add leafy vegetables.

My grandmother used to add all ingredients at once and fire cook for 15-20 minutes. Nowadays we have got a pressure cooker to save energy and time to cook yellow cucumber dal.

Most of the time people are afraid to purchase yellow cucumber as they weigh more with small sizes. Also, their taste varies sometime they taste bland, sour and even bitter. So it’s always recommended to taste before you add to dal.

Contents

Tips to make the perfect Dosakaya Pappu Recipe:

While selecting a cucumber, try to select raw cucumber which is hard.
Once you peel skin, check the taste of the cucumber as they might have different tastes like few are sour and few are bitter.
If they taste bitter whole recipe may get spoiled but we can make use of its seeds.
Based on the taste, if the cucumber is sour then reduce tomatoes or tamarind.
At the end of the recipe if you want to enhance the flavour and essence add a spoon of ghee.

Dosakaya Pappu Recipe | Yellow Cucumber Dal

Dosakaya Pappu Recipe | Yellow Cucumber Dal is one of the easy and loved foods of Telugu speaking people.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Andhra, Indian

Keyword Dosakaya Pappu Recipe, Yellow Cucumber Dal

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 25 minutes

Servings 6

Calories 80 kcal

Author Uppada Lakshmi

Ingredients

Toor Dal – 1 bowl
Water – 2 bowls
Dosakaya/ Yellow cucumber – 1 No.
Onions – 1 bowl
Tomatoes – 1 bowl
Turmeric powder – 1 tbsp.
Green chillies – 5 No.
Red chilli powder – 1 tbsp.
Salt – 1 tbsp.
Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp.
Curry leaves – 1 tbsp.
Oil – 2 tbsp.
Fenugreek seeds – ¼ tbsp.
Mustard seeds – ¼ tbsp.
Cumin seeds – ¼ tbsp.
Garlic – 20 No. crushed
Dry red chillies – 4 No.
Curry leaves – 2 tbsp.
Asafetida – a pinch

Instructions

Before peeling slice cucumber and check the taste of it, if its good remove skin and seeds. Slice into small pieces
In a pressure cooker clean dal and add 2 bowls of water to the quantity of dal.
Sometimes cucumbers have a sour taste so adjust tomatoes based on it.
Add tomatoes, onions, turmeric powder, coriander leaves, red chilli powder, green chillies, curry leaves and salt.
Mix all ingredients and pressure cook for 3 whistle blows.
When dal blows three times, let’s start tempering.
In a pan add little oil and add jeera, fenugreek seeds and mustard seeds.
When mustard seeds splutter add garlic cloves, curry leaves and asafetida powder.
Open pressure cooker lid, mix all ingredients and add temper over Yellow Cucumber Dal and mix.
Put a few strands of coriander leaves over dosakaya pappu recipe and serve hot.