Leela's Kitchen

Ingredients

2 tbsp Coconut oil

1 tsp Mustard seeds

½ tsp urud dal

1 red chilly

4 to 5 Curry leaves

1 cup padval chopped into small pieces

¼ cup chopped onions

3 spoons of roasted and coarsely ground boiled rice

½ cup scraped coconut

¼ tsp turmeric powder

½ tsp chilly powder

1 Garlic pod

Pinch of jeera

Salt to taste

Thoran is a dish famous amongst Malayalees. It is a side dish served with rice. Thoran can be made from various vegetables such as beans, cabbage, carrot, suran etc. Here is a recipe of thoran prepared from padval.

Cooking Method

1. Grind the scraped coconut with chilly powder, turmeric powder, jeera and garlic coarsely. Keep the coconut paste aside.
2. In a frying pan pour coconut oil, put urad dal, red chilly and mustard seeds when the oil is hot. When mustard splutters put curry leaves and the snake gourd (padval) and onion. Pour ½ cup water, close the pan and allow it to cook. Add salt when the padval is cooked.
3. Now add the powdered rice and the ground coconut paste mentioned above.
4. Fry the thoran till it is dry. Garnish with curry leaves and serve as a side dish with rice. Recipes for lunch