Kalan Recipe / Kurukku Kalan Recipe – Onam Sadya Recipes

I finally managed to make this must make recipe on every onam table. I wanted to make olan too, but i will try to make it. I am rushing with time now, so just hurrying to post this. Check out my other onam recipes in the mean time.

Hope you will love this and let me know how it turns out..

Preparation Time : 5 mins

Cooking Time : 35 to 40 mins

Serves : 3

Ingredients:

Yam / Chena Kizhangu – 1/2 cup peeled and chopped

Raw Plantain / Keralan banana – 1/2 cup peeled and chopped

Salt to taste

Chilli Powder – 1 tsp

Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi – 1 tsp

Water as needed

Curd / Yogurt – 1 cup well beaten

To Grind:

Fresh Coconut – 1/2 cup grated

Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 tsp

Green Chilli – 1

Whole Pepper – 1/2 tsp

For Tempering:

Coconut Oil – 1 tblspn

Mustard Seeds / Kaduku – 1 tsp

Curry leaves a sprig

Dry Red Chilli – 1 broken

Method:

Take all grinding ingredients in a blender and make it into smooth paste.

Take chopped yam and plantain in a kadai. Add in chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt. Add in water, cover and cook till the veggies are done.

If there is any water, evaporate it.

Add in coconut masala and mix well. Cook for 2 mins.

Add in beaten curd and mix well. Simmer for a min and turn off the heat.

Heat oil for tempering, add in all the ingredients and let it splatter. Pour this over the curry and mix well.

Serve.

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