Shruti Haasan makes yummy 'Mango pappu' during quarantine, here's how you can make one too

Many celebrities seemed to have found ir inner chef and are honing her culinary skills during lockdown. Recently, it was Shruti Haasan who shared a video of cooking mango Pappu. For all those who want to try ir hands at it, here's recipe. 

Mango Pappu or mango daal is a recipe from Andhra Pradesh made by using raw, sour mangoes as primary ingredient. It is also called mamidikaya pappu in Telugu and tastes somewhat tangy and hot. It is one of most commonly made pappu in state. 

Recipe for Mango pappu

prep time for this mango pappu is 20 minutes and it takes around 15 minutes to cook. It serves four people and is to be treated like a side dish. ingredients required are as follows:

• half a cup of mangoes peeled and chopped
• one cup of water
• half tablespoon of turmeric powder
• one green chilli
• one tablespoon red chilli powder
• one cup toor daal
• few curry leaves
• salt
• one tablespoon of ghee or butter
• one tablespoon mustard seeds
• half a tablespoon of hing
• one dried red chilli

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Procedure

• In a large saucepan, add chopped mangoes along with a cup of water
• Add turmeric powder, green chillies and curry leaves
• Cover and cook for about five minutes or till mangoes become soft but retain ir shape
• Be careful t to overcook mangoes
• Add ar tablespoon of turmeric powder followed by red chilli powder and season according to taste
• Mix it well making sure lumps are formed due to powdered ingredients
• Add daal (it should be cooked before in water and must be of a thick consistency)
• Add water to mixture if required and cook for about three minutes
• Preparing tempering for recipe by adding ghee, mustard seeds, hing and dried red chilli and allowing it to sputter
• Pour over tempering into daal
• Serve mango Pappu with steamed rice and enjoy

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A few things to keep in mind

• Add chilli powder before adding daal or it will form lumps
• One can boil mangoes along with daal in pressure cooker beforehand
• Chilli powder and salt should be added according to sourness of raw mangoes

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Im credit: Shruti Hassan Instagram, Shutterstock