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Peanut Sundal / Verkadalai Sundal

Posted on Sep 5, 2013 · Last Updated on Mar 11, 2021 by Uma Ramanujam · 16 Comments

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Ganesh chaturthi is coming on next Monday and I am sick here and not able to cook anything special for the festival. I was able to make only this simple sundal today and posting it now for your treat….

Basic Information:

Preparation Time: 5 minutes

Soaking Time: 1 -2 hours

Cooking Time: 15 minutes

Serves: 3

Ingredients:

Peanuts / Verkadalai – 1 cup (raw, dried peanuts with skin)

Oil – 2 teaspoons

Mustard seeds – 1/2 teaspoons

Onion – 1/4 cup, thinly sliced

Asafoetida – a big pinch

Salt – to taste

Dry red chillies – 3 nos., crushed

Grated coconut – 3 tablespoons

Curry leaves – 1 spring

Method:

1) Slightly wash and soak peanuts for 1 to 2 hours.

2) Drain the water. Pressure cook it for 2-3 whistles with salt and water.  Add water just to immerse it. Depending upon the type of peanuts you may need to cook it for more number of whistles.

3) When the steam completely suppresses, open the pressure cooker and drain the water.

4) In a frying pan, heat oil.

5) Throw mustard seeds and asafoetida when it is hot.

6) Add dry red chillies and curry leaves(I didn’t add as I didn’t have when I prepared this sundal). Saute for few seconds.

7) Add onion and saute till the onion becomes soft.

8) Add peanuts and coconut. Mix well. Taste and adjust the salt.

9) Mix well for a minute.

10) Serve warm.

Notes:

1) You can skip onion from this recipe if you are planning to do it for ganesh chuturthi. But it really adds nice taste and flavor.

2) You can also use desiccated coconut.

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virunthu unna vaanga
virunthu unna vaanga
11 years ago

wow Uma… its my most favorite sundal… omg… u make me drool here ;)Superb…

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Divya Shivaraman
Divya Shivaraman
11 years ago

this sundal looks super tempting….

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anjana
anjana
11 years ago

I never eaten or tried eaten anything with boiled peanuts,but this looks so inviting,will try for sure!

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divya
divya
11 years ago

the dish looks so appetizing !!Will taste great as well 🙂

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Unknown
Unknown
11 years ago

wow this sundal this tempting me !! 🙂 looks super delicious and lovely clicks dear 🙂

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great-secret-of-life
great-secret-of-life
11 years ago

looks tempting .. Nice presentation

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nayana
nayana
11 years ago

just love this peanut usali…..

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Kaveri Venkatesh
Kaveri Venkatesh
11 years ago

One of my favorite sundals…Looks inviting

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Unknown
Unknown
11 years ago

take care uma.. dont stress much if u are not well..

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www.mahaslovelyhome.com
11 years ago

Looks tempting n healthy n lovely cliks.

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Janani
Janani
11 years ago

I love this peanut sundal from all other regular sundal its so yumm and delicious.

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Chitz
Chitz
11 years ago

Lovely clicks of a tempting sundal 🙂

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Zoe
Zoe
11 years ago

Hi Uma,

Your peanut sundal looks great! This is my first visiting your blog and I'm impressed with all delicious cooking and food photography 😀

Nice to know you via blogging. I'm now your latest follower and hope that you can follow mine too 😀

Zoe

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kebhari
kebhari
11 years ago

I am a first time visitor to your Page, loved the idea of dedicating an entire blog space to Desserts.

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Hari Chandana
Hari Chandana
11 years ago

Wo . very beautiful pictures.. awesome job dear 🙂

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Unknown
Unknown
11 years ago

Yummy and healthy peanut sundal, nice clicks too….

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