Thursday, February 11, 2010

Vazhakai Podi Curry /Raw Plaintain Curry.


Ingredients:
Vazhaikai (Raw plaintain) - 4-5
Urad Dal - 2 tsps
Mustard seeds for seasoning - 1 1/2 tsps
Hing - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - few
Salt - as required
Oil for cooking
Ingredients for podi (powder):
Urad dal - 4 tsps
Chana Dal - 3 tsps
Black Pepper - 1/2 tsp
Dry Red Chillies -6-7
Curry leaves - few
Coriander (daniya) seeds - 2 tsps
In 1/2 a tsp oil roast all the items and grind into a coarse powder.
Method:
Peel the skin of the plaintain and cut into small cubes and put in a vessel with water.
Take a kadai, pour little oil and add mustard seeds,urad dal, hing,and curry leaves for seasoning.
After the spluttering of mustard seeds add the small cut plaintain cubes after draining off the water.
Now add required amount of salt and sufficient water to cover the plaintain pieces and cook.
Alternatively you can put the plaintain pieces in a microwave bowl with water to cover the pieces and cook for about 8-10 minutes and the add it to the seasoning and mix nicely.This will be a little quicker.
If you are cooking in the kadai with water close a lid on top and cover it till the water evaporates and the pieces get cooked.
Now before removing from fire add the ground masala powder to the plaintain pieces and mix nicely and close for about 5 minutes and cook.
After everything is mixed nicely and the vegetable is cooked thoroughly, remove from fire.
Now the Vazhaikai podi curry is ready to be eaten with a nice curryleaves flavour and to be eaten with sambar or rasam rice.
In the end you can also add fresh grated coconut (optional) for an added taste or to enhance the flavour.


34 comments:

  1. Woow.. Nice post, I love this poriyal!!.. I like any dish with vazhakaai :).. I would like to share some awards with you please accept it from my blog:):)

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  2. Indian Plantains are small compared to Spanish ones here which are 4 times bigger than what I see there. But Indian plantains are tastier! :)
    Podi curry look yum.

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  3. Looks very comforting, there has never been a festivity with out plantains... mmm I need some rice and rasam will get the bowl clean and neat ;)

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  4. Yummy curry dear...I too love podi curry...this goes so well with rasam :)

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  5. This and Thayir saatham is my idea of heaven. Brr, I am such a saapaattu raami.

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  6. Yummy Curry dear! I love this curry:)

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  7. I love raw plantain preps..... Especially the bajji, Hmmmmmmmmm........... This prep is awesome too as I like it in every form & prep....

    Ash...
    (http://asha-oceanichope.blogspot.com/)

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  8. I love raw plantain this dish making me drool...

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  9. very interesting preparation...looks yummy..

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  10. Wow, had it long back...am craving for this since long...delicious curry..

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  11. Love all dishes with raw plantain...this sounds wonderful !

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  12. I lov plantain curry..this is totally diff from wat v make...will giv a try...

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  13. I often cook with plantain but your recipe is diff I will surely try it out.

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  14. Simple yet tasty recipe, thanks for sharing, dear..

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  15. Waah! I also make the same dish exactly but I grate the plantain! I'll give it a try!

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  16. Raw plantain is my fav (actually I love all veggies) and we make Shukto and Kofta with these. this recipe is new will give it a try sometime.

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  17. I like this veggie and recently learned how to grate it and stir-fry it with some sort of podi. Always go wrong with the plain stir-fry unless I boil it beforehand.

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  18. LOVELY AND TASTY DISH...TEMPTING

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  19. this looks so nice! i love raw plantain..will try ur version next time I get it!

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  20. My all time fav veggie....Curry looks yummy and delicious....

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  21. wow very nice n flavourful dish from raw plaintain...new recipe for me...luks delicious, thnx for sharing

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  22. i am happy to bump into yoyr blog for this nice indian cooking many thanks for hte sharing !!
    I ma pierr a french foodie come and see my blog you are welcome
    cheers from paris Pierre

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  23. oh this is great to know - thanks for the recipe! Looks delicious!

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  24. i think it's very delicious,so nice

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  26. Saw your blog on blog roll! I'm Indian but haven't learned how to cook Indian food! Will def try out your recipes. I have a baking blog and hope you will take a look (www.bakernthebeast.blogspot.com) :)

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  27. First time visiting your blog...this recipe reminds me of all my childhood favorite foods.

    We make the same recipe in our house...more or less same recipe.

    Love all the recipes here...will be following your recipes!!!

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  28. This podi curry is really unique.

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  29. Nice. I love green plantains but rarely prepare them b/c many recipes fry them heavily in oil, which they soak up like eggplant. This, however, is lovely, easy, and very different.

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