Pattani Sundal

You can find two types of Pattani in the shops, one cream coloured pattani or Vella Pattani , and the second one is the dried green peas or Pacha Pattani.  You can use both to make Pattani Sundal but white or the Vella pattani is preferred one.

Ingredients needed for Pattani Sundal
1 cup Vella Pattani , cleaned and soaked for 6 hours.
Salt to taste
1 tsp mustard seeds
3- 4 whole red chillies cut into 2-3 pieces
Handful curry leaves
2 pinches of Asafoetida powder
1/2 cup grated fresh coconut
2 tsps Oil

How to prepare Pattani Sundal
Pressure cook the soaked Pattani / Peas for 10 - 15 minutes. That is once the steam comes up and you hear the whistle, simmer the cooker for 15 minutes.  Put off the fire and let cool.
After about 10 minutes, open the pressure cooker, drain out the extra water. Add salt and mix well and simmer till all the water dries up.
Heat oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds. Add broken red chillies, Asafoetida. pinched curry leaves mix well witha teaspoon of the water in which the dal was cooked.
Add the cooked  Pattani to the pan and mix well.
Add fresh grated coconut and stir for a while.
Remove from fire and keep covered till you serve.

Points to Note:
While using pressure cooker if you follow the method I have given above you can save a lot of fuel.
You can also cook by letting the cooker in high flame and give you 3-4 whistles and then putting it off. Both will take same time to cook.