Pavakai Peratal (Karela Masala)
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
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1
ingredients
- 5 pavakkai or 5 karela
- 5 tablespoons coconut, shredded (If you want less use about 3 tbsp.)
- 7 small onions (can use pearl onion)
- 1 medium tomatoes (optional)
- 1 tablespoon khus khus
- 1⁄2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon chili powder (use according to how hot you want the peratal to be)
- 1 tablespoon coriander powder (I use my Mother in law's mix but can use the ordinary coriander powder)
- 1 small tamarind pulp
- 1⁄2 teaspoon mustard (for tampering)
- 6 -10 curry leaves
- salt
- 3 tablespoons oil (Health Conscious can use around 1-1/2 tbsp.)
directions
- Soak the Tamarind in 1/2 cup warm water.
- Wash and Cut pavakai into small pieces removing all seeds.
- Add salt to the pavakai and let it sit for 1/2 hr.
- Cut small onions and tomato to small pieces.
- Grind Coconut, Khu Khus and Tamarind in mixer to a smooth paste.
- Remove the paste from the mixture and add the masala powders and salt to the ground mixture.
- Make sure you do not add too much salt as pavakai already has some salt in it.
- Rinse the mixture with 1 cup of water and reserve the liquid.
- Heat 1 tbsp.
- oil in kadai.
- Squeeze water out of the Pavakai and add it to the hot oil.
- Fry the pavakai till it becomes half done.
- Remove it from the kadai.
- Add 2-tbsp.
- oil to the same kadai.
- Using sesame oil will enhance the taste.
- Add mustard to the oil.
- Once it stops spluttering add curry leaves.
- Add onions and keep stirring till the onion becomes soft and starts changing colour.
- Add tomato and stir for 2 min.
- Add the ground mixture and the reserved liquid from the mixture.
- Once the masala starts boiling add the pavakai and stir the mixture once.
- Put a lid and let the pavakai cook.
- Keep cooking till pavakai is well done and the mixture has a semi solid consistency.
- This can be used as a side dish or as a main dish to go with plain white rice.
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