Erissery / Thatta payir Erissery / Cow Peas & Elephant Yam Cooked in a Coconut & Garlic Masala

We have started planning for this weekend..May be go to some nice places and take some pictures to test our camera. Other than that, normal cleaning, washing and organising must be the plan. What are your plans for weekend..

Now back to the recipe..This one is a traditional recipe in southern part of india. Each place have their own way of making erissery. I adapted this recipe from nags and loved it a lot. Its pretty simple to make, but the taste was awesome. I made this for onam and we totally enjoyed that meal.

 

Off you go to the recipe and tell me how it turned out for you.

Ingredients:

Cow peas / Vanpayar /Thatta Payir / Karamani / Perum Payir - 1 cup

Elephant Yam / Chena Kilangu - 2 cup cubed

Salt to taste

For Grinding:

Coconut - 1 cup

Whole Pepper / Pepper Powder - 1 tsp

Chilli Powder - 2 tsp

Garlic - 3 cloves

Turmeric powder / Manjal podi - 1 tsp

For Tempering:

Coconut Oil - 2 tblspn

Mustard Seeds / kaduku - 1 tsp

Urad dal / Ulundu - 1 tsp

Curry leaves - 1 spring

Method:

Soak Cow peas over night in lots of water. Drain the water and Pressure cook it with a some water for 3 whistle. Let it simmer for 5 mins. Switch off the flame and let the pressure go all by itself. Remove and set aside.

Now take cubed yam in a kadai and cover it with water. Add salt to it.cover and cook for 15-20 mins till the yam is completely cooked.

Add the cooked cowpeas in this and mix well.

Now take the grinding ingredients in a mixer and make into a fine paste.

Pour this over the cooked yam and cow peas and mix well.

Let it simmer for 10 mins.

Now make the seasoning. Heat oil and add mustard, urad dal and curry leaves in this. Let it sizzle and crack.

Pour this over the curry and mix well.

Serve with rice.

Pictorial:

Take all your ingredients

Take the grinding ingredients in a mixer

and make into a fine puree

Take yam in a kadai

add salt to it

add water

let it come up over the yam

cover and cook

till the yam is cooked

add the cooked cow peas in it

and mix well

add the coconut mixture

and mix well

cook till they gets thicken

make tempering

pour over the curry

mix well

serve