Mung / Moong jo shaak / Mung Bean Curry

This a quick proteinacious week day meal. My students from Saudi Arabia tell me that this is prison food. That is to say prisoners get mung beans for their meals! Well, mung bean curry has been one of my favs since I was a child. That and Mung Bean Soup (recipe soon).

Ingredients
Ingredients
1 cup dried mung beans; soaked overnight and boiled, mung bean cook very quickly so you don't need to pressure cook
1 onion; finely chopped
3 Cloves garlic; peeled and minced
2 inch ginger; peeled and grated
3 tomatoes; blanched, peeled and chopped
2 - 3 chilies slit through the centre
1/2 tspn tumeric powder
2 tspn coriander and cumin powders
2 tspn oil
salt to taste
1 tblspn chopped coriander for garnish

1. Heat the oil in a pan, add the onions, cook until golden brown, then add the split chilies, let them splutter.
2. Add the tomotatoes, garlic and ginger cook for 5-6 minutes, add tumeric, coriander and cumin powders, cook for 2 minutes.
3. Add the boiled beans, with the water the beans were boiled in
5 Cover and cook, until nice and thick, add coriander mix and serve.
I served it with mani / chappatti