Dondakaya Kura

Hi

Do you want to have simple curry  with warm rice as comfortable food for  today's lunch. Better prepare Tomato samber  with side dish with delicious and simple dondakaya curry  and papad.

You can prepare this curry easily with the ingredients available in your kitchen. Dondakaya / Ivy gourds are available through out the year. One can prepare dondakaya curry in many ways. Mostly  this curry, fry etc preffered in the occasions See this the new variety of dondakaya kura.

Let us go  to prepare.



Ingredients

• Dondakayalu                               1/4 kg
• Turmeric powder
• Salt to taste
• Oil

For grounding paste

• Coriander leaves                         Handful
• Green mirchi                                5
• Cumin seeds                                1/4 tbsp

For popu                 

• Mustard seeds
• Curry leaves

How I did it

1. Select tender fresh and bright donkayalu.
2. Wash them thoroughly with running water.
3. Trim them well.
4. Cut carefully, vertically lengthwise into twos.
5. Discard ripe ones
6. Take a bowl. Add water . Half boil dondakayalu.
7. It takes 7 minutes to half boil. Switch off the stove and let them cool.
8. Mean time prepare grounded paste.
9. Take pan add little oil. Let it heat. Add mustard. Let them splitter. Then add turmeric powder and curry leaves.
10. Then add half boiled and squeezed dondakaya pieces.
11. Stir well and cook for 2 to minutes.
12. Then add required salt and grounded pasted. 
13. Stir well and fry for 5 minutes. Raw smell  goes off and nice aroma of coriander  leaves comes out . See the unique taste.
14. Transfer into a bowl.
15. See the taste.

  This is the curry for your tomato sambar taken as side dish for your comfortable lunch.

My Note

Coriander leaves enhances the taste of any curry.


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