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Tuesday 23 August 2011

Podi Idicha Curry

Also referred to as ‘Podi Thooval’ curry..
Vegetables that can be prepared this way: Potato, Seppan kizhangu
Ingredients:
  1. Vegetable: 750 gms
  2. Salt
  3. Mustard: 2 tsps
  4. Oil
  5. Red Chillies: 6
  6. Gram dal (Kadala Paruppu): 6 tbsps
  7. Coriander Seeds: Kothamalli Vidhai: 6 tbsps
  8. Curry Leaves: Few
  9. A pinch of turmeric powder
  10. Asafoedita
  11. Water
Preparation Procedure:
  1. Cook the Potato / Seppan kizhangu in a cooker by steaming it with water. Ensure that the vegetable is not mashed. It should only be 3/4th cooked so that you are able to cut the boiled vegetable without mashing them.
  2. In a kadai add 2 tsps of oil and roast the gram dal, coriander seeds and the red chillies till light colour change to golden yellow colour.. allow the roasted mix to cool. Transfer the contents to a mixer and add salt and asafoedita to the mixer and grind it without adding water so that it is powdery.
  3. Cut the boiled vegetable in to fairly big pieces (not too small or too big).
  4. In a Kadai, add 4 tbsps of oil, add mustard and when mustard starts spluttering, add the cut vegetable. Add turmeric powder and asafoedita (pinches) and the powdered mix to the kadai with continuous stirring so that it spreads uniformly.. You need not add salt if you have added enough salt while grinding the roasted mix itself. Otherwise, add some more salt here.
  5. Allow it on kadai for around 10 mins to 15 mins and when the vegetable is medium roasted, add few curry leaves and remove it from the flame.
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4 comments:

  1. srinivasan30 April 2012 at 14:25

    I think poduthuval,the slang version of Podi Thooval, is more suited for Beans.I remember my grandma using the term "beans poduthuval". And her recipe was not alike to what you have mentioned. As far as I remember,it was just beans with grated coconuts garnished with kaduku & ulutham paruppu.Your comments please?
    Srinivasan

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  2. Akila3 May 2012 at 14:21

    Hi, thank you for taking time to read this.. Podi Idicha curry / Podi thooval is mostly done with ingredients like Coriander seeds, Gram dal and red chillies. The one that you have mentioned which is prepared using grated coconut, kaduku and ulutham paruppu is normal curry / vegavaitha curry/steamed curry (as mentioned under my post: steamed curry.. ) this can also be done with Avaraikkai, Cabbage, Chow chow, carrot, etc.. am not sure if this is also refererd as podi thooval.

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  3. us22 March 2014 at 11:32

    generally this podi goes well with katharikkai curry, and the powder is usually coarsely ground
    usha

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  4. unknown3 December 2016 at 02:02

    Looks like you have good recipes, it would help not to have so many words in Tamil as not all your readers know what that means.

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