Moong Dal and Cabbage salad

Most of us like to have a salad with our meals , but most often end up serving a fresh vegetable salad with the regular vegetables like carrot, cucumber, onion , beetroot, tomato etc The fresh green salad is  easy to make , but gets monotonous and we look for refreshing ideas for a change,

I recently had a Moong dal salad which was tasty and very healthy. Here's how you can make it.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup moong dal  soaked in a bowl of water for 1 to 2 hours

1/2 cup finely grated cabbage

2 tbsps grated coconut

1/2 inch piece of ginger, peeled & finely chopped

1/2 tsp mustard seeds

1 tbsp oil

 1 to 2 tsps lemon juice, and a few finely chopped coriander leaves ( optional) 

Procedure:

Drain out the water from the Moong dal and put in a bowl. Add cabbage, coconut, ginger and mix well. In a fodni kadai , heat oil . When hot, add mustard seeds  and allow to splutter. Turn off flame and pour oil with mustard seeds  on the dal mixture. Stir well and add lemon juice  if you would like to. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve.