Mike's Parupu - nala shapadu

Mon Cheri Suet Fun,

Gracias for the lentils recipe. It’s good. I am a lover of lentils and I believe that most Taipingites do so. Please, if you like, I am giving you my version of cooking the parupu.
Ingredients
250 g. (½ lb.) lentils
½ onion chopped
2 green chilies sliced
2 gloves garlic sliced
½ tsp tumeric
500 ml. (2 Cups) water
125 ml. (½ cup) coconut milk
1 – 2 tsp of salt
For tempering:
2 tbsp of olive oil
6 curry leaves
2 shallots sliced
1 tsp mustard seeds
2 dry chilies.
Method
Wash lentils well. Drain
Put lentils in a saucepan; add onion, green chili, garlic and turmeric. Add water and bring to boil. Cover and cook on low heat until lentils are soft.
Add coconut milk and salt, cook for 5 minutes. Remove cooked lentils from saucepan.
Tempering:
Pour in oil and heat. Fry tempering ingredients per sequence as listed. Pour lentils back into the same saucepan, close the lid and turn off heat. Lentils should be the consistency of runny porridge.
Tips:
* Best lentils in the world come from Australia.
* Put in four match heads of asoefotida or parangayam in your lentil, if you wish for extra kick.
* Always eat lentils with moru mulega. Fry in small amount of hot oil just for one day consumption. Easy to masuk angin
* Scintillate your taste buds with rasam before makan. Ah Swee told me to drink nande rasam because it’s more potent than tongkat Ali. I have been taking gallons of the stuff. Buy your rasam from Cettinad in Bangsar. Get the nande from any Chinese mini-market in packets. Made in Indonesia. Don’t short cut using rasa podi.
* Drink a dry gewürztraminer from Alsace as the food is very tasty. Don’t buy your wine from the shop next to Uncle Ho’s in BSC. Potong lehir, ma! Get the stuff fro Tesco’s wine Shoppe.
* If you don’t have a kah lee yip tree, I’ll give you the best seedling.
* Place two leafs of Daun Pandan (Cheen loi yip) and a little sea salt when cooking your basmati.
My favourite curry is “Katherikai (ai kwa), karavadu (harm yee) and machakote”. Interface it with pudina sambar. Ayoo, Kadavaleh. May the Lord Venkateshwara bless us all. Nala shapadu ma!
Souhaiter l’amour et la bonte a` votre art de l’auto – portrait distingue`.

Michel.
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