Lemon and Redgram Lentil (Nimmakaya Pappu)

Ingredients

Split Red Gram: 1 Cup
Lemon : 1/2
Mustard Seeds: 1/2 Teaspoon
Cumin Seeds: 1/2 Teaspoon
Fenugreek Seeds: 1/8th Teaspoon
Garlic: 4
Curry Leaves : 4-5 Leaves
Asafoetida : 1/2 Teaspoon
Redchillies : 1
Green Chillies: 1
Turmeric : 1/2 Teaspoon
Water: 2 Cups
Salt to taste.
Pinch of sugar.

(Check Fudtionary for meanings if you have doubt with the words in orange color.)

Method

Put split red gram, green chillies and add water in a pressure cooker and close it with the cooker lid.

Keep the whistle on the lid and wait till 3 or 4 whistles and switch off the stove.

After it gets cool remove the whistle and add salt, turmeric, lemon juice and pinch of sugar to the boiled redgram.

Now take a pan add oil and let it get hot and now add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, redchillies, fenugreek seeds, garlic cloves, curry leaves and once they start to splutter turn off the stove and add in asafoetida.

Season the tempering on the cooked redgram dal and serve hot with rice/roti/chapati.

Note: 

Whatever you cook in the pressure cooker you should add some little water in the cooker first and then place any bowl/vessel.If you are cooking directly in the pressure cooker itself,then no need to add extra water to the cooker.

Adding asafoetida after turning off the heat gives you nice aroma of it to the food.