Pitla recipe
This variety of pitla as it called can be prepared for festivals like Navratri, Varalakshmi Vratham or Ugadi.
The ingredients required are two teaspoons of urad dal , one teaspoon of gram dal , pepper , red chillies
asafoetida and curry leaves.
All the ingredients are roasted in a little oil, curry leaves can be roasted separately also. Then grated coconut is added and the mixture is ground into a fine paste.
Sauté with mustard seeds, urad dhall in a tava, add solution of tamarind soaked in water, allow it to boil.
Then add the cooked vegetables - peanuts, beans and carrot slices and let the solution boil.
Finally add already cooked thoor dhall and add salt to taste and boil for a few minutes
We can use different vegetable combinations like yam and chick peas, bittergourd ( pavakkai ) and peanuts or ground nuts to make this delicious dish.
Pepper gives a fine flavour to pitla
