Kalan - Onam Special recipe

Ingredients For Kalan

1.Curd - 2 Cup
2.Yam (Chena)- 1/4 cup
3.Raw banana (Ethakka) - 1/4 Cup
4.Curry Leaves - 4 String
5.Green Chillies - 1/4 Cup
6.Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
7.Red Chilli Powder - 1/4 tsp
8.Pepper Powder - 1 tsp
9.Salt
10.Grated Coconut - 1/2 cup
11.Jeerakam - 1/4 tsp
12.Coconut oil - 2 tsp
13.Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
14.Red Chilly - 2
15.Curry leaves
16.Fenugreek (Uluva) - 1/2 tsp

How to make Kalan

1.In a pressure cooker mix the yam pieces,raw banana pieces,curry leaves,green chillies,turmeric powder,red chilly powder,pepper powder and salt.Add little water to it and cook it covered.

2.When the pieces become cooked well add the curd to it and mix it well do not boil the curd .

3.Grind the coconut with jeerakam and make it to fine paste .Add this to the curry and bring it to boil.

4.Turn off the fire and in another pan heat the oil and splutter the mustard seeds ,red chilly and curry leaves .Add this to the curry and mix it well.

5.Add the fenugreek powder to the curry and mix it well.This is the perfect onam special curry.

Moru curry (kalan) -Kerala recipe

Moru curry or kalan the simple but Delicious Kerala recipe.If you have curd you can make a similar curry named moru kachiyath(with out coconut).It will be really an easy one for working women.

Ingredients

Raw banana/white pumpkin/yam - 1 cup

Curd -2 cup

Coconut - 1 no

Ginger - 1 tsp

Garlic - 1tsp

Mustard seed -1/2tsp

Red Chilli - 2 no

Greem chilli - 2 no

cumin seed - a pinch

Curry leaves a small stem

coconut oil - 1 tsp

Turmeric powder -1/2tsp

Red chilli powder - 1 tsp

Fenugreek seed - a pinch

Preparation

1.cut the yum/banana/white pumpkin in small pieces,add turmeric powder,salt ,green chillies,curry leaves and cook it with reqd water.

2.Beat the curd ,and grind the coconut with cumin seed ,ginger ,garlic.

3. Add the grinded coconut and curd to cooked pieces and boil it for 5 mts.

4.In a pan heat the oil and add mustard seed ,curry leaves ,red chillies,pinch of fenugreek seed,pour this to the curry.now the delicious curry is ready.

We can also make it without vegetables for this avoid the part of cooking vegetables..........