Kalan Recipe | Kurukku Kalan
Kalan is a delicious creamy side dish for meal made by cooking plantain & yam in a yogurt & coconut based sauce into a creamy curry. Kurukku Kalan is prepared for rice meal & Onam Sadhya spread and a must try at home.
Servings2 people
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup raw green plantain
- 1/2 cup elephant yam
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper powder
- 1/4 teaspoon fenugreek powder Dry roast 1/2 teaspoon of fenugreek and grind it to a fine powder
- few nos curry leaves
- 1 cup curd sour
- salt to taste
To grind:
- 1/4 cup coconut
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1 no green chilli
To temper:
- 1 teaspoon coconut oil
- ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
- 1 no red chilli
- few nos curry leaves
Instructions
- Whisk curd well until smooth and creamy.
- Remove the skin of the veggies and chop it into bite sized pieces, Keep immersed in water and rinse it well.
- Cook the vegetables in required water with salt and turmeric powder till soft and is slightly mushy.You can add pepper powder also while cooking - I usually add at last stage.
- Grind the ingredients listed under 'to grind' to a semi coarse mixture along with little water, Set aside. Now add whisked curd.
- Mix well, let it boil for 5 mins.Then add coconut mixture,mix well and let it cook for few mins, add pepper powder and fenugreek powder. Mix well.
- Prepare the tadka - heat coconut oil - add the items listed under 'to temper' let it splutter. Add this tadka to the curry. Mix well and switch off.
- Serve Kalan with rice!
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Notes
- The curry gets to thicken faster so switch it off accordingly may be a bit runny so that once it cools down it gets to the right consistency.
- You can even mash up veggies before adding it to the curry.
- Take care to keep stirring after curd is added to avoid curd from curdling.
- You can even pressure cook the vegetables.
- Yam takes time to cook so while it is half cooked I added raw banana.
Nutrition Facts
Kalan Recipe | Kurukku Kalan
Amount Per Serving (75 g)
Calories 198
Calories from Fat 90
% Daily Value*
Fat 10g15%
Saturated Fat 7g44%
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.3g
Monounsaturated Fat 2g
Cholesterol 16mg5%
Sodium 1033mg45%
Potassium 497mg14%
Carbohydrates 24g8%
Fiber 4g17%
Sugar 14g16%
Protein 6g12%
Vitamin A 954IU19%
Vitamin C 116mg141%
Calcium 185mg19%
Iron 2mg11%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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