ASPARAGUS AND LENTIL STIR FRY

Asparagus --- 1 bundle
Tour dal --- 1 cup
Onion --- 1 medium chopped
Green chilies --- 3 chopped(according to your taste)
Oil – 1 tab sp
Mustard seeds – 1/2 tea sp
Cumin seeds --- 1 tea sp
Curry leaves --- 10 no.
Garlic – 3 cloves crushed
Urad dal – 1 tea sp
Lemon juice --- 1 tab sp
Salt to taste
Turmeric powder --- 1/4 tea sp
METHOD:---
1. Cut the woody ends of the asparagus then peel any blemishes. Wash thoroughly in warm water, and cut into 1/2 inch pieces and boil asparagus till tender.
2. Wash and soak dal for 10 min, and cook till 3/4 done don’t mash the dal drain if any water is there in dal and use this water in rasam or soups.
3. Now heat oil in a fry pan add mustard seeds let them popup then add urad dal, crushed garlic, cumin seeds, curry leaves and let them fry till golden.
4. Then add chopped onion and green chilies and fry till onion become soft then add cooked asparagus and stir for 3 min, then add cooked dale keep the flame in high and add slt to taste, turmeric powder and lemon juice and stir for 2 min and remove from heat.
5. Serve with steamed rice and rasam or with pulusu (tamarind graves) and goes well with roti also.
And you can eat this as it is, a very good choice for diet

And you can make the same curry with Amaranth leaves stems(totakura kadalu) also