Mung bean Curry / Mung bean Soup – (Vegetarian / Vegan / Nuts free / Gluten free Curry/ Soup)

Written Step by step Recipe:

• Take 1 cup of green mung beans. Wash them well, strain them properly, and then add double the amount of water and soak these mung beans for at least 1 hour.
• After 1 hour, transfer these mung beans along with water in the pressure cooker and boil them for up to 4 – 5 whistles of pressure cooker.
• Let the cooker cool down.
• In a separate deep pan add 2 table spoon of oil on a medium flame.
• Sprinkle 1 pinch of asafoetida
• Add 1 tea spoon of mustard seeds
• Add 1 tea spoon of carom seeds (ajwain / ajmo seeds)
• Let this oil and seeds combination sizzle in a pan on medium flame
• Once the oil starts sizzling, add turmeric, red chili powder, cumin-coriander powder (or cumin powder), and then stir everything well
• Then add boiled mung beans along with water in the pan on a medium flame.
• Add more water to keep the consistency soup like or curry like according to your choice.
• Add salt to your taste
• Let it boil for at least 10 – 15 minutes on medium flame.
• Keep stirring in between
• In 10 minutes delicious mung soup / mung curry is ready.
• Garnish it with minced cilantro and a wedge of lemon.                                         

• Direct pressure cooker recipe: – Instead of boiling just mung beans, follow all the above steps directly in the pressure cooker. Sauté oil and other required ingredients in the pressure cooker. Add soaked mung beans in the pressure cooker with at least 3 cups water. Cover the lid of pressure cooker. Cook it until 4 whistles of pressure cooker on medium flame. After 4 whistles, switch off the flame and let the cooker cool down. Once the steam is released your mung soup / curry is ready.
• Instant pot recipe: – Instead of boiling just mung beans, follow all the above steps directly in the instant pot. Sauté oil and other required ingredients in the instant pot. Add soaked mung beans in the instant pot with at least 3 cups water. Cover the lid. Cook it on bean chili setting of instant pot. Once it is done, let the instant pot cool down. Once the steam is released your mung soup / curry is ready.

Tips:

• You can add optional ingredients like – Green chili, half cut tomato, half cut onion, 1 tea spoon of garlic paste, and 1 tea spoon of ginger paste.

• Sauté them well in the sizzling oil before adding boiled mung beans.
• Then follow the rest of the steps mentioned above in the recipe.

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