Spicy Sweet Sour Cowpeas Chat (kaaramani Sundal)

Sundal is always a good choice of snacks for evening. This spicy sweet and sour sundal definitely hits your taste buds as an addictive snack. I have already posted peas chat, women's friendly peanut chat.

Cooking time: 10 mins

Serving: 2

Ingredients:

Black eyed peas (Cowpeas / Kaaramani) - 1/2 cup
Red chilli powder - 3/4 tspn
Palm jaggery (karuppatti) - 3 tbsn
Tamarind paste - 1 1/2 tspn
Grated coconut - 2 tbsn
Curry leaves - few
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tspn
Oil - 1 tspn
Salt to taste

Method:

1. Grab all the ingredients.

2. Soak the Cowpeas for 3 hrs. Add salt. Keep the vessel over the trivet with a cup of water in the inner pot.

3. Close the lid. Press the manual for 7 mins in High Pressure HP in sealed position. Then do Natural Pressure Release NPR. Strain the water and keep the cowpeas aside.

4. Cook the palm jaggery with water covered and boil until it gets dissolved.

5. Heat a pan. Add oil, mustard seeds.

6. Add cooked Cowpeas, red chilli powder, few curry leaves. Saute for few seconds.

7. Add the palm jaggery by filtering into the mixture. Add coconut, tamarind paste. Cook for a minute.

8. Yummy spicy sweet and sour sundal is ready to serve.

Notes:

You can add jaggery instead of palm jaggery.
If you don't have tamarind paste add tamarind extract from a small gooseberry size of tamarind.