Pulissery
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Recipe type: Side dish
Cuisine: South Indian
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Serves: 5-7
 
Ingredients
  • Buttermilk - 2 cups
  • Turmeric Powder - a pinch
  • Pappaya/cucumber-1 cup
  • Salt - as needed
  • To grind
  • Coconut - ¾ cup
  • Garlic - 3-4
  • Cumin seeds - ½ tsp
  • Green Chillies - 1 or 2
  • Onion- 2-3
  • For tempering
  • Mustard seeds - ¼ tsp
  • Shallot onions - 4-5 (chopped)
  • Dry red chillies - 1 or 2
  • Fenugreek seeds - ⅛ tsp
  • Curry Leaves - 1 strand
  • Oil - 3 tblsp
Instructions
  1. • Take a pressure cooker or a heavy bottomed pan and add 3-4 cups of water, garlic clove, salt and turmeric powder to the papaya/cucumber. Cook till it is soft and mashy.
  2. • In the meanwhile, grind together the grated coconut, cumin seeds and green chillies with required water.
  3. • Once the vegetable is cooked, add this ground paste and cook for another 5 minutes.
  4. • Finally add the buttermilk and required salt. Keep stirring continuously for the next 5 minutes till the curry gets warmed up. Do not let it come to a boil .
  5. • While the vegetable is simmering, heat a small pan in another stove. Add oil and splutter the mustard seeds. Add the sliced shallots and fry till golden brown. Add the curry leaves and dry red chilly and switch off.
  6. • Add this tempering on the curry and switch off.
Recipe by Kerala Cooking Recipes at https://www.keralacookingrecipes.com/pulissery/