PERUGU CHARU/SPICY YOGURT

This dish is prepared during summer to cool the hot temperature. This dish is from coastal andhra the place I came from. May be other regions are also famous making this dish,If so I would like to know what they call this dish.

My grand mom and mom used to serve this every other day during summer even today they do this dish. I have changed their version a little. Here is my version for this dish. Its very simple not much to cook.

Here are the Ingredients used for this:

2 cups plain yogurt.
1 onion sliced.
salt to taste.

For tempering:
2 tblspn oil.
3-4 green chillie sliced very fine.
1/4cup peanuts(optional)
1/4 cup chana dhal(spilt chick peas).
1tspn mustard.
1/4 tspn turmeric powder.
curry leaves.
2 whole red chillies.
1/4 tspn hing ( asafeotida).
fresh coriander to granish.

How to make the tempering:

Take a saute pan and heat the oil, when the oil gets warm add whole red chillies and fry for a second, later add mustard seeds and allow the mustard to crack. Then add channa dhal and peanuts and fry till golden, later add turmeric powder, hing and curry leaves and fry. Last but not the least add the finely chopped green chillies and fry well. Add this mixture to the yogurt.
Take plain low fat yogurt in a bowl
In the yogurt bowl add sliced onions and salt
Now add the tempering mixture to the yogurt

After adding all these mix well and serve it with plain rice or u can serve this dish with rotis or even with any type of fried rice items. I even like to have this dish with minappa garelu(urad wada).