"Vazhakkai Poriyal"

"Vazhakkai Poriyal"

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About this Foodie!!

"Vazhakkai(in Tamil) Poriyal", is a simple to make and special variety South Indian dish made with less oil than our regular oil fried vazhakkai dish , this dish is not very spicy to eat and however it has the mild spice taste of green chilly. Color of this dish will be very mild and you can add turmeric powder if you like to enhance its color.

Ofcourse vazhakkai has gastric influence for most of the people but you can take raw cumin seeds or drink cumin seeds boiled with water after you eat any sort of heavy dish since cumin seeds has the nature to digest our food and make us comfortable within few minutes.

Best side dish with any type of Puzhi kuzhambu and even for Dosai.

Ingredients

1. Vazhakkai(Green bananas) - 2 nos medium sized

2. Big Onion - 1 no

3. Coconut scraps - 1/2 cup

4. Mustard seeds , Ulunthum paruppu(White split gram) - 1/4 tsp each

5. Curry leaves - 5-6 nos

6. Salt and Oil - to your taste

7. Green chilly - 2 nos or to your taste

 "Vazhakkai Poriyal"

 Recipe

 Method

1. Nicely wash the vazhakkai and peel of the skin and chop to dice cut  pieces as shown in picture.

2. In an open cooker add 2-3  tsp of oil and add mustard seeds, ulunthum paruppu and roast it and then add chopped onions , curry leaves and green chilly and cook till onions become golden brown and then chopped vazhakkai and salt and close the cooker and cook for only 1 whistle.

3. Then open the cooker and add coconut scraps and nicely stir and cook for 2-3 mins and serve hot.

Try it and you will Like it!

Happy Foodie!!!