Vegetables & Lentils With Ground Spices

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup yellow moong dal
• 3 cups mixed vegetables, cubed (colored peppers, potato, peas, zucchini, squash, white pumpkin, carrots, lima beans, beans..whatever you want to add)
• 1 teaspoon turmeric
• 1/2 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
• salt
• 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
• few curry leaves
• 3 teaspoons oil, divided
• 5 dry red chillies (more or less as per your heat tolerance)
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 tablespoon urad dal(the split dehusked ones)
• 2 tablespoons grated coconut
• a pinch of asafoetida/hing
• 7-8 curry leaves