Recipe: Appetizing Tuvar Dana Bhaat/Pigeon Peas Rice

Tuvar Dana Bhaat/Pigeon Peas Rice. Add the fresh tuvar dana (fresh pigeon peas) and mix well. Let the pressure cooker cool by itself and then open the lid. The tuvar dana bhaar / pigeon peas rice is ready.

It goes very well with Rotis, Rotlas and Rice. Pigeon pea is known as Tuvar Dal (split seed without seed coat) or Arhar ki daal in India. Pigeon pea is one of the important pulse or legume crop in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. You can cook Tuvar Dana Bhaat/Pigeon Peas Rice using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Tuvar Dana Bhaat/Pigeon Peas Rice

1. It's 1.5 tbsp of oil.
2. Prepare 1 tsp of mustard seeds.
3. You need 1 of bay leaf.
4. You need 1 inch of cinnamon stick.
5. Prepare 1/4 tsp of asafoetida.
6. Prepare 1 of dry red chilli.
7. It's 1 of onion finely chopped.
8. You need 1/2 tbsp of ginger garlic paste.
9. Prepare 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of red chilli powder or as per spice level needed.
11. It's 1/2 cup of fresh green tuvar dana fresh green pigeon peas. I have used the frozen fresh tuvar dana.
12. It's 1 cup of basmati rice washed and soaked for half hour.
13. Prepare 2 cup of water.
14. Prepare of salt as per taste.

Keep stirring for a few minutes on low flame, till it is cooked. Add this to cooked dal and eat with rice. Toor Dal, Tuvar dal, Arhar dal, Split pigeon pea, Tovar dal, Tur dal, Thuvaram paruppu, Kandhi pappu. What is Toor Dal, Toovar Dal.

Tuvar Dana Bhaat/Pigeon Peas Rice instructions

1. In a pressure cooker pan, heat oil, add mustard seeds and when they crackle add bay leaf, cinnamon stick, dry red chilli and asafoetida..
2. Add chopped onion and saute. Saute the onions till translucent and then add ginger garlic paste. Saute for few seconds. Add turmeric powder and red chilli powder and saute for few more seconds..
3. Add the fresh tuvar dana (fresh pigeon peas) and mix well. Saute. Add the soaked and drain rice and saute for a minute.
4. Add water and salt and mix well. Cover the lid and pressure cook the rice for 4 high whistles and 2 low whistle. Let the pressure cooker cool by itself and then open the lid. The tuvar dana bhaar / pigeon peas rice is ready..
5. Serve the rice plain or with yogurt/buttermilk/gujarati kadhi and papad, pickle and salad..

Skinned and split toovar is also, known as pigeon peas. It is a major source of protein and many other nutrients for vegetarians. Tuvar Lilva (Pigeon Peas) and Methi ni Bhaji (Fenugreek Leaves) together is my favorite. I love to prepare Tuvar Methi Bhakri, Thepla, Handvo, Sabji and more. By all means if you don't like fenugreek, substitute with other greens like spinach.