Garlic-flavoured mung beans

Name: Garlic-flavoured mung beans
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: 1 fresh green chilli, sliced diagonally (deseeded if preferred); 1 fresh red chilli, sliced diagonally (deseeded if preferred); 8 cm/3 in piece of fresh root ginger, grated; 4-5 large garlic cloves, crushed; 8-10 fenugreek seeds; 5 ml/1 tsp salt, or to taste; 1 courgette (zucchini), finely diced; 2.5 ml/½ tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda); Plain Boiled Rice, to serve; 225 g/8 oz/1½ cups whole mung beans (sabut mung dhal); 60 ml/4 tbsp mustard oil

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Indian Regional Cookbook

By Mridula Baljekar

Published 2017

About

Khar is from Assam and is always served at the beginning of a meal, as it is believed to aid digestion. Bicarbonate of soda replaces the traditional ingredient of banana tree trunk ashes.

Ingredients

225 g/8 oz/1½ cups whole mung beans (sabut mung dhal)
60

Asia
India
Assam
Main course
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Wash the mung beans in several changes of water, then transfer them to a large bowl, cover with cold water and soak them for 6-8 hours or overnight.
Heat 45