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Sundal | Easy Chickpea Salad | Ganesha Chathurthi Special

Last updated September 16, 2015. Originally posted September 16, 2015 By Jyothi Rajesh 6 Comments

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This is a very easy and delicious salad recipe. Chickpeas sundal/salad is a staple dish for Ganesha Chathurthi and we make it not just during the Ganesha festival. A regular in our home.

When you add tempering to salad it lifts it up to a whole new level. In South India, our dish is not completely cooked if we do not add tempering, be it sambar, rasam, dal, chutney or stir fry veggies.

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Here’s a very simple and easy sundal recipe-

Ingredients:-

Chickpeas – 1 cup
Onions – ½, finely chopped
Curry leaves – 1 sprig
Dried red chillies – 3-4 nos
Oil – 1 tspn
Mustard seeds – 1 tspn
Cumin seeds – ½ tspn
Urad dal – ½ tspn
Salt to taste
Fresh grated coconut – ¼ cup

Instructions:-

1. Soak chickpeas over night. Next day pressure cook chickpeas for 3-4 whistle with just few tablespoons of water and a teaspoon of salt.

2. In a wok/pan heat oil. To hot oil add mustard seeds and let them crackle. Then add cumin seeds and urad dal and saute for 10-20 seconds.

3. Now add finely chopped onions, dried red chillies and curry leaves and saute for 10 seconds.

4. Add fresh grated coconut and mix well, let it cook for a minute.

5. Finally add cooked chickpeas with no water in it. Season with salt. Cook for about 2-3 minutes. Turn off flame.

That’s it. Simple and easy sundal is ready! This can be a great after school snack or even tea time snack. Eat it as much you want without the guilt! 😀

 

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  1. Lora says

    December 12, 2018 at 8:22 pm

    What is urad dal? I looked it up and it said you could use black lentils or mung beans. Is the urad dal cooked?

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    • jyothirajesh says

      December 12, 2018 at 11:40 pm

      This is urad dal (and no urad dal is not cooked, we use dried ones and add it to oil it cooks rather gets roasted in oil)
      – https://www.123rf.com/photo_11059963_urad-dal-skinned-and-split-black-gram.html

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  2. Shailaja says

    September 16, 2015 at 7:43 pm

    We too makes sundal to vinayaka chavithi ….nice clicks jyothi

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    • jyothirajesh says

      September 18, 2015 at 8:31 pm

      Thank you Shailaja 😀

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