Bhogi Dosa and Pitikipappu koora

Hope you all had lots of fun along with lots of special Sankranthi dishes. I know most of you must have started off the day with Sweet Pongal. Back home where I am from we start eating dosas with a special curry called "PitikiPappu koora" since almost a month before Sankranthi. Hmm the thought of dosas and pitikipappu makes me run towards the kitchen and make some. Well there is enough dosa batter for 2 more days so there is always time. So for those of you who are wondering what this "weird sounding" dish is I will give a brief description of what it is made of, and how it is made. The curry mainly is made by using beans for which I still have to look up the botanical name. The beans are called Anapakayalu ( not the AAnapakaya/sorakaya), and look just like chikkudu. Usually in the winter season when the anapakayalu become available they are boiled just like " Ground nuts"/Senakkayalu and eaten by removing the outer layers. But the more tender pods are pressed off their sheaths and sundried so that they can be used for later. The fresh ones are for the current season, and the dried ones for the later. Anyways that is how I got the dried pods here in the US. Here is the recipe for the curry.
Ingredients:
1. 2 cups of dried beans (pitikipappu)
2. 4 medium sized potatoes peeled and diced
3. half onion diced
4. 2 medium tomatoes
For the Masala
2inch ginger, 6-7 garlic cloves
1 clove, 1/2 inch cinnamon, 5-6 pudina (Mint) leaves
dried coconut2 tbspn, 1spn chillipowder (2 if mild)
3tbspn peanuts (fried and skin peeled off)

Now for the making, just grind the masala ingredients into a fine paste.
In a pressure cooker add 2 spns oil, and season with mustard, curryleaves. Follow with Onions, and then the dried pappu. later add the potatoes fry them for a bit, and then add the masala fry a bit, and finally add tomatoes diced followed by 3 cups of water. Put the lid over the pressure cooker, and let it cook until one whistle. Take it off the heat let the pressure reduce, and then once the lid is taken off garnish with cilantro. Eat it with dosa or chapathi and you will find the road to heaven!! Here are some pics with the ingredients and the finale! You can see Suhaas's hand digging into the dosa without any further delay!!