Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, vendakai theeyal. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Vendakai theeyal is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Vendakai theeyal is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Vendakka Theeyal - Authentic Kerala Okra in Roasted Coconut Gravy. Vendakka Theeyal is a great vegetarian curried dish, made from a lip-smacking spiced and roasted coconut paste. The flavours of coconut and spices along with a sour undertone make the gravy so tasty.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have vendakai theeyal using 23 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Vendakai theeyal:
- Take For grinding
- Make ready 1/2 cup Coconut
- Prepare 10 Shallots
- Make ready 1 Green chilli
- Take 1 Red chilli
- Prepare 10 pods Garlic
- Get 3 tsp Coriander seeds
- Take 1 tsp Chana dhal
- Make ready 1 tsp Urad dhal
- Make ready 1 tsp Jeera
- Take 1/2 tsp Pepper
- Make ready For gravy
- Take 1 Tomato
- Make ready Tamarind lemon sized
- Get 6 Lady’s finger
- Make ready 1 pinch Asafoetida
- Prepare 1 tsp Chilli powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Coriander powder
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
- Make ready Salt as per taste
- Take For tempering
- Make ready 1 tsp Tamarind juice
- Get 1/2 tsp Fenugreek seeds
Here is my recipe for vendakka theeyal recipe. Preparation Method : Wash and cut the okra into one inch pieces and set aside. Squeeze the pulp, strain and set aside. Theeyal is a Kerala special curry. 'Theeyal' the word literally means 'burnt'.
Steps to make Vendakai theeyal:
- Sauté all the ingredients mentioned for grinding in a pan and let it cook and grind with water
- In apa. Add mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, shallots, garlic and sauté for a while
- After sauting for a while add tomato and chilli powder, coriander powder and turmeric powder and sauté for a while
- Cut lady’s finger and sauté until a beat brown
- Add ground paste to the sautéed shallots garlic and tomato
- After a while add sautéed lady’s finger and cook for a while
- Add asafoetida and check for salt
- Add tamarind juice and cook for a while
- The gravy is ready to be served with steamed rice or idli and dosas
In this curry coconut used is roasted till it gets the dark colour and made as a paste. Due to that the curry get the darker colour. I love this curry because we donot feel the sliminess of the vendakka in this dish. Venakka is a nutritious vegetable. "Theeyal" is a typical Kerala dish. It is similar to Tamil Nadu "Kuzhambu", but the difference is, in Theeyal all the spices along with coconut are fried to a brown colour, grind it to a fine paste and added to the Kuzhambu.
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