Tasty and Healthy Kerala Special Thoran

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Muringa Poovu (Drumstick flower) Thoran



Ingredients:

* Drumstick flowers 2 cup
* Turmeric pdr 1/2 Tsp
* Coconut 1 cup
* Shallots 2 to 4
* Mustard seeds
* Curry leaves
* Chilly 2 to 5
* Water
* Salt
* Oil

Preparation

Clean the flowers and soak it in turmeric water for 15 mins. Squeeze it well and keep it aside. Grind together coconut, chilly, shallots and turmeric pdr. Heat oil and add mustard seeds. When it splutters, add grounded coconut, curry leaves and salt. Saute it for a few mins and add the flowers. Mix it and sprinkle some water. Cook it in low flame.

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Chembu Thal Thoran



Ingredients:
Chembu Thal (Taro Stem) 6 Medium
Grated coconut 1/2 of one
Small Onions 5 – 6 nos
Green Chilly 3 nos
Turmeric Powder 1/4 tsp
Mustard seeds 1 tsp
Red Chilies 2 Bunches
Curry Leaves 2 Bunches
Coconut Oil 2 tsp
Salt for Taste

Preparations:
Peel the skin from the Chembu Thal (Taro Stem) and cut it 2 inch long. Mix the salt with it and squeeze out the thick serum inside and keep it aside. Prepare a thick paste of grated coconut, green chillies, small onions, curry leaves and turmeric powder, mix this with the chopped Chembu thal (Taro Stem).

Heat coconut oil in a fry pan or kadai. Splutter mustard seeds, add red chillies and curry leaves into it. Add the above mix into this, sprinkle a little of water if you feel to and cook for 5 minutes in medium flame. Lower the flame, open the lid and stir it until it get cooked well.

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Vazhakoombu cherupayar Thoran



Ingredients:
1 no Banana flower (Vazhakoombu/Kodappan)
½ cup green gram (cherupayar)
1 tsp Cumin seeds
½ of one Coconut
A little Turmeric powder
1 tsp Chilly powder or a few Green chillies
Salt – As required
1 tbsp of Oil
1 tsp of Mustard seeds
2 – 3 broken Dry red chillies
A few Curry leaves

Method:

1)Clean the cherupayar well and get rid of the unwanted stuff from it.

2)Cook it separately with water in a pressure cooker and make sure u don’t overcook it.

3)Remove the first 3 – 4 outer covering of the vazhappoo and chop the rest very finely as u do for thoran.

4)Add coconut oil and turmeric powder into the above chopped Vazhakoombu and mix well the whole thing using your hands to remove the Vazhakoombu's serum.

5)Place together the grated coconut, green chillies, cumin seeds and curry leaves in a mixer bowl and run it once to make it into a coarse form.

6)Mix it along with the chopped Vazhakoombu mixture.

7)Heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds and sauté dry red chillies and curry leaves.

8)Add the Vazhakoombu mixture and mix well.

9)Cover and cook on a low flame.

10)After sometime, remove the cover and add the cooked cherupayar into this and mix well.

11)Continue cooking without the lid on, till done, making sure that it doesn’t get mashed.

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Drumstick (Muringakkai) Thoran




Drumstick (Muringakkai) 12
Onion ½ cup cut into small pieces
Green chilli 3 cut fine
Garlic 4 pods
Coconut ½ piece (grated)
Turmeric powder ½ teaspoon
Jeera powder One pinch
Oil 2 table spoon
Curry leaves
One sprig
Salt to taste

Cut drumstick lengthwise into two halves and take out the inside fleshy part with a spoon. Cut it into small pieces. Mix it with green chilli, garlic, onion, grated coconut, jeera, turmeric, curry leaves and salt. Mix well and keep it for 30 seconds.

Heat oil in a separate pan, splutter mustard and put the mixture into it and mix with oil. Cover it with a lid and cook it using low flame for 6 minutes. When it is cooked stir well again for 2 minutes and remove from the flame.


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