SNAKEGUARD COCONUT GRAVY / PUDALANGAI KUZHAMBU

Hi Everyone,

Snake guard is one of the vegetable which you can able to cook various dishes with different tastes.

Right from kootu , poriyal , fried snack to spicy kuzhambu , we can cook so many dishes out of it , even you can make snacks with snakeguard seeds( recipe will share soon).

This recipe is also inherited from my mum , she cooked this kuzhambu during my visit.After tasting the gravy I immediately noted the recipe and here below the recipe for your ref also,

SERVINGS : 4 members

COOKING TIME : 20 MINUTES.

INGREDIENTS :

Snake guard – 1 big ( about 2 cups of chopped)

Coconut oil – 2 tsp

Mustard – ¼ tsp

Curry leaves – a sprig

Pearl onions – 6 nos

Tomato – 1 (small)

Salt – as required

Dry red chillies – 1 no.

FOR GRINDING :

Grated Coconut – 1 1/2 cups

Poppy seeds – ¼ tsp

Cumin  / Zeera – ½ tsp

Curry leaves – a sprig

Chilli powder – 2 tsp

Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp

Coriander powder – ½ tsp.

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PREPARATION :

1) Chop snakeguard into medium sized pieces , chop onions , tomatoes too.

2) Grind our grinding ingredients to fine paste.

3) In a wide kadai heat coconut oil , followed by mustard , curry leaves ,onions ,dry red chillies and saute till golden brown.When done add chopped tomatoes and fry till mushy.

4) Then add chopped snakeguard pieces and fry for a minute.Now add ground masala to frying ingredients and mix well.

5) Add salt and let the gravy boil for 10 mins till the vegetable is boiled to soft.

6) Once gravy reaches required consistency and vegetable also boiled to soft , garnish with coriander leaves and remove from flame.

7) The gravy goes well with rice , Idli , Dosa , Chapathi and also pulkas.

NOTES :

1) You can add 2 pods of garlic while grinding masala also.