Stuffed Hunagarian Peppers with Moong Dal and Cream of Wheat

 Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup Moong dal
• Water to soak and boil dal
• 1/2 cup Cream of wheat
• 10 Hungarian peppers
• 1 teaspoon Turmeric powder
• 3 tablespoons Coriander powder
• 2 tablespoons Mango powder
• 1 tablespoon Cumin powder
• Salt to taste
• 3 tablespoon sugar
• 1 tablespoon of oil to roast cream of wheat and spices
• 1/4 cup oil to temper peppers
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 1/8 teaspoon asfoetida
• 1 cup water to cook peppers

Method: 

• Wash and soak dal for 4 hours completely submerged in water.
• Add little salt and boil the dal until tender but not mushy.
• Drain all the water and set aside.
• Wash and slit the Hungarian peppers length wise half way so you can fill them.

• If you don't want this side dish to be very spicy you can take the seeds and veins out of peppers, otherwise leave them intact.
• Mix cream of wheat and all the powdered spices except sugar and asfoetida.
• Heat some oil in frying pan. 
• Dump all the spices and cream of wheat in the pan and roast on medium low heat until cream of wheat golden brown. Be sure the keep stirring so cream of wheat and spice mix does not burn.
• Mix this roasted spice mix with dal.
• Add salt to taste, add sugar.
• Mix well until everything is well incorporated.
• Fill the peppers generously with this mix and set aside.
• You will still have some stuffing left, that is okay you can use this to sprinkle on top of stuffed peppers.
• Serve hot with chapati/roti or rice or simply as a side dish.

• Heat oil in a flat pan and when oil is hot add cumin seeds.
• When seed crackle, add asefoetida and gently place the pepper in the heated oil in pan.
• Let them cook on medium high heat for few min until skin on pan bottom becomes light brown.
• Gently flip them over and cook the other side.
• Turn the stove off.
• Now carefully transfer them one by one in a microwave safe 9x 13 pan.
• Sprinkle rest of the stuffing on to lengthwise arranged peppers.
• Pour water over on the sides of pan.
• Cover with plastic wrap.
• Cook the peppers in microwave for 15 min.
• They will be nice and soft.

 

Enjoy :)
Recipe and Photographs by Surekha.