Kollu thuvayal | horse gram thuvayal or the Kollu thogayal is a healthy recipe which is mostly eaten by mixing this kollu thuvayal | horse gram thuvayal in rice and ghee.
How to make Kollu thuvayal / Horse gram thogayal
Preparation time: 15 min | Process Time: 5 min | Serves: 3
Recipe Category: Side dish | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Kollu thuvayal or kollu paruppu is my mil’s signature recipe. She prepared this last week and I clicked the snaps. This kollu thuvayal can be eaten by mixing with rice and ghee or oil. With the kollu water, I prepared the kollu rasam which I already posted. There are so many health benefits of kollu and it is very useful in weight loss. Also I already Kollu rasam and Kollu sundal. My MIL says there is another version also in this, which we will see later. Now we will see this simple version kollu thuvayal.
Step by step instructions to prepare kollu thuvayal | Horse gram thuvayal
Ingredients
Horse gram / Kollu – 1/2 cup or 5 tbsp
Coriander seeds – 1 tsp
Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
Dry red chilli – 2 ( or adjust according to your spice level )
Salt – as per taste
Oil – 1/4 tsp
Water – to cook horse gram
Method to prepare Kollu thuvaya | horse gram thuvayal
1. Take all the ingredients except salt and dry fry the kollu first till it becomes brown colour.
2. Pressure Cook the fried kollu with 1.5 cups of water for 4 to 5 whistles. Drain the water. Use the drained water to make Kollu Rasam.
3. While cooking the horse gram, in another pan add oil and the remaining ingredients except salt. Fry for 2 min or till nice aroma comes.
4. Transfer all the contents with the kollu or horse gram and salt to the food processor or mixer grinder and grind to a coarse paste. If needed add little water.
5. Kollu thuvayal is ready. Mix it with hot white rice and add gingelly oil or ghee and eat it.
Notes:
1. This chilli is very spicy and I added only two of them. You can add more if you want. But adjust according to your tolerance.
2. If you want you can add 3 small shallots and 5 to 6 curry leaves while frying the ingredients in oil and grind together.
Healthy and tasty Kollu thuvayal is ready
Recipe of Kollu thuvayal | Horse gram thuvayal
Kollu thuvayal | Horse gram Thuvayal
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
5 mins
Total Time
20 mins
This kollu thuvayal can be eaten by mixing with rice and ghee or oil. With the kollu water, we can prepare the kollu rasam There are so many health benefits of kollu and it is very useful in weight loss. There are different version of kollu thogayal in which this is the simplest.
Course:
Side Dish
Cuisine:
tamil nadu
Keyword:
horsegram recipes, kollu thogayal, kollu thuvayal
Servings: 3
Calories: 150 kcal
Ingredients
- Horse gram / Kollu – 1/2 cup or 5 tbsp
- Coriander seeds – 1 tsp
- Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
- Dry red chilli – 2 or adjust according to your spice level
- Salt – as per taste
- Oil – 1/4 tsp
- Water – to cook horse gram
Instructions
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Take all the ingredients except salt and dry fry the kollu first till it becomes brown colour.
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Pressure Cook the fried kollu with 1.5 cups of water for 4 to 5 whistles. Drain the water. Use the drained water to make Kollu Rasam.
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While cooking the horse gram, in another pan add oil and the remaining ingredients except salt. Fry for 2 min or till nice aroma comes.
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Transfer all the contents with the kollu or horse gram and salt to the food processor or mixer grinder and grind to a coarse paste. If needed add little water.
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Kollu thuvayal is ready. Mix it with hot white rice and add gingelly oil or ghee and eat it.
Recipe Notes
check the above notes
Post first published on Feb 24 2014. Updated with recipe information.
My friend used to get this for lunch and we love to taste it.I try making this .Can we just fry the horsegram and grind it?
yummy and healthy dear
healthy and yummy really..
Wow this one flavorful thogayal isn't it 🙂 I made them recently and I know how yummy they taste 🙂 very healthy one !!
Super healthy and lovely looking thuviyal.
Deepa
dish looks very tasty, never tried this before….
mind blowing clicks.. looks too yummy:)
Very healthy and tasty.
healthy, tasty thogayal
looks delicious, beautiful clicks
Delicious thogayal…
It sounds like it would taste great as a dip with chips or crudites.
heavenly and delicious. I'm a big fan of chutneys, any kind with any ingredients.
Nice one
Kollu has some unique flavour.. I love it.. So tasty thuvayal
Yummy south indian side dish, final presentation is attractive.