Cool Cabbage and Peanut Salad

What you need:

2 cups grated or finely shredded cabbage,

4 tblspns soaked yellow moong dal,

2 tblspns crushed peanuts,

2 tblspns chopped coriander,

juice of half a lemon,

1 tspn sugar,

salt to taste

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For the dressing or tempering:

1 tblspn oil,

1 tspn cumin seeds,

1 clove garlic crushed,

a pinch asafoetida,

1 green chilly chopped

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Procedure:

Mix the shredded cabbage, moong dal, crushed peanuts, coriander, sugar ,lemon juice, and salt and keep aside.

Next prepare a tempering by heating the oil and adding to it all the ingredients loke cumin,garlic etc.

Let this tempering cool down a bit and then pour it over the salad and mix well.

Your salad is ready to serve.

As a fancy bit you can add half a cup of pomogranate seeds to this salad.

Serve it in a cabbage leaf as I did.