Senagalu Pulusu

Ingredients:

• Onion - 1 no.
• Tomatoes - 2 no.
• Senagalu - 1 cup
• Garlic -  4 cloves 
• Coriander powder - 5 tablespoon
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 teaspoon
• Tamarind - soak and extract the chintapandu pulusu
• Salt to taste
• Coriander leaves for garnishing

Paste for Pulusu:

Grind the below ingredients

• Raw rice - 1 tablespoon
• Cumin seeds - 1 teaspoon
• Red chillies (adjust to taste) - 8-10 no.
• Grated coconut - 3 tablespoon (ideally fresh coconut. I tried adding dry coconut grate...still tastes good)

Preparation:

• Soak channa overnight. 
• Drain and cook chana by adding water(1:4) and cook in a pressure cooker
• Drain the excess water.and keep it aside to add to the curry later
• In a pan, add oil.
• Add onions, tomatoes, garlic cloves and the paste.
• Add coriander powder, turmeric powder and channa water you drained
• Cover and cook for 10 min
• Add boiled chana to the curry and cook for 5 mins.
• Add salt to taste and add tamarind water like you add to any pulusu
• Boil for 10 mins
• Add thalimpu to this curry - oil + thalimpu seeds + curry leaves
• Garnish with Coriander leaves

Take this curry with rice or chapathi