Moong Gathi or Mooga Gathi or Muga Gathi is a traditional Goan dish usually served in temples. This dish is made using sprouts of green gram in a delicious coconut gravy which is tempered with mustard leaves and curry leaves. This is a pure veg dish made without using onion and garlic. Yet this dish tastes so delicious that you will want to eat more. This dish is also made on special occasions like pooja and festivals where we eat pure veg food. It tastes best with pooris, but some people love to eat it with rice.
In Goan temples, pure veg food without onion and without garlic is served on special occasions. People sit in a line on the floor and are served food on banana leaves. The curries are normally carries around in steel buckets and served to everyone in a line.
½ cup sprouted green gram/moong
6 tablespoon coconut, grated
5 black peppercorns
3 Kashmiri dry red chilies
1 teaspoon coriander seeds
1 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 marble sized ball of tamarind
½ teaspoon mustard seeds
8 – 10 curry leaves
Pinch of asafoetida
1 teaspoon jaggery, grated
2 teaspoon oil
Procedure:
Love this. We make this too Raksha, but call it Mooga Ghashi. And we dont use jaggery, and we give onion tadka. – Sreelatha
Oh we call it Tonak 🙂
Looks testy! Photographs are very sharp !
thanks Shrikant
interesting Raksha, though the images looked like alsandi to me, need to get my eyes checked.