Muga Saaru Upkari ( Mung Edible Bean Soup) ; Meatless Monday

Today is physician Martin Luther King's Birthday. He believed inwards looking beyond himself. He worked for the betterment of dark people . I decided to practise something altruistic today every bit good as well as select to you lot a warm, hearty, protien-rich gluten-free, vegan soup as well as roughly data to confront the influenza season.

Did you lot know that Jan is Soup Month?? Well, I didn't know either, until recently! It does brand feel though: non solely is it wintertime as well as cold, it also happens to last influenza season! Kids become dorsum to schoolhouse later the Christmas holidays as well as come upward habitation sick!! Is it whatever surprise that nosotros attempt comfort foods similar soup??

Where I come upward from, soup is also used every bit a side alongside rice. So you lot could mix the soup alongside the rice as well as eat. Well, it would hence last rice-bean soup! ;) Just kidding! The soup-like sides that nosotros brand are called Saaru- Upkari inwards konkani. If I were to literally interpret it hence the give-and-take " saaru" agency gravy as well as " upkari" agency " sauté". So it could technically interpret into a sauté alongside gravy. In reality is a soup. We brand saaru-upkari of most all kinds of beans. The edible bean of pick is cooked alongside 4-5 times H2O until tender. It is hence tempered alongside either garlic as well as carmine chillies or carmine chilli pulverisation or mustard, curry leaves, asofoetida as well as carmine chillies or chilli powder. Believe me when I tell that it is delicious as well as a truthful comfort food. It tin last eaten alongside rice every bit a side or every bit is similar a soup alongside roughly bread. This makes for a filling weeknight dinner; both to create as well as to eat!

Servings: 2-3

Ingredients:

Dry Mung beans: one cup
Water: iv cups to soak as well as three cuks to cook.
Salt: to taste

For tempering:

Coconut oil: 1/2 tsp ( whatever cooking fossil oil may last used).
Mustard seeds: one tsp
Curry leaves: one sprig
Asofoetida powder: a pinch ( if using solution: 3-4 drops)
Red chilli powder: 1/4 tsp ( tin last adjusted every bit per private spice level).

Method:

Soak the dry out mung beans inwards H2O for 4-5 hours or overnight. Drain the water, add together fresh H2O ( three cups) as well as create inwards the pressure level cooker on medium flaming until you lot take away heed 2-3 whistles. If you lot practise non select a pressure level cooker, you lot tin create it on the stove plow over on medium flaming until the beans reaches the desired tenderness. The mung beans should last well-cooked but non over cooked. Open the pressure level cooker solely later all the pressure level has been released. Add tabular array salt as well as mix well.

Tempering:

Heat kokosnoot fossil oil inwards a frying pan/skillet on medium heat.Add mustard seeds. Once the mustard seeds splutter, add together curry leaves as well as asofoetida powder. Turn off the flaming as well as add together chilli powder.

Add this mixture to the pot alongside the cooked mung beans. Mix well.

Serve hot every bit a side alongside rice of your pick or serve inwards a bowl every bit a soup alongside roughly crackers!

Enjoy !

I am bringing this to Throwback Thursday#22, Fiesta Fri # 103 as well as Saucy Saturdays. Angie's Fiesta Friday is existence co-hosted past times ii of the real talented blogger friends, Sonal @ simplyvegetarian777 as well as Petra @ Food Eat Love.

Cooking made easy:

I commonly invention my meals the previous solar daytime as well as position the desired amount of dry out beans inwards H2O either at nighttime earlier I become to bed or early on morning time earlier I exit for work. But inwards representative you lot forget or of a abrupt select an urge to brand mung edible bean soup for dinner, precisely soak the mung beans inwards hot H2O for an hr , keeping the pot shut as well as create it inwards the pressure level cooker.

This soup tin also last made inwards a tiresome cooker.

Tip for good for you lot living:

Taking a leafage from physician Martin Luther King's book, I am going to practise something altruistic as well as portion alongside you lot roughly myths regarding the influenza that is prevalent during the winter.These are non my views.This was shared past times Christian Pickard from Bankers Healthcare Group.

I would yet emphasize that the best way to continue mutual frigidity as well as influenza at bay is past times observing skillful paw hygiene! Wash your hands every time you impact something that you lot hollo upward is unclean. When you are exterior practise non impact your eyes, olfactory organ or mouth. Imagine that you lot are wearing a face-mask!

Food for thought:

Life's most persistent as well as urgent enquiry is " What are you lot doing for others??" physician Martin Luther King