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Mung beans with yoghurt (Khatta Mug)


Yesterday I had made mung bean curry and I had some left over.  So I decided to spice up the mung bean curry by adding some sharp but natural yoghurt and some jaggery or brown sugar  to the mung bean curry to give it a sweet and sour taste. Gujarati’s call it khatta mug which literally means sour mung bean curry.

1.  I had about 4 cups of cooked mung beans left over so I added half  cup of plain yoghurt which I had diluted with a half cup of water.  If needed,you can add sugar to taste.

 2. Stir in the yoghurt and keep stirring until it’s all blended in to the curry.  Cook for 5-6 minutes or until the gravy looks fairly thick.

3,  Garnish it with some chilli flakes and serve it hot with any Indian bread or rice.

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Mina Joshi

I am a busy working mum who aims to make quick and healthy authentic vegetarian and vegan dishes for my family. I am also a face to face and online cookery teacher, recipe developer, restaurant and product reviewer. I share all recipes with step by step instructions.

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