Vendakai theeyal
Vendakai theeyal

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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:
  1. Take For grinding
  2. Make ready 1/2 cup Coconut
  3. Prepare 10 Shallots
  4. Make ready 1 Green chilli
  5. Take 1 Red chilli
  6. Prepare 10 pods Garlic
  7. Get 3 tsp Coriander seeds
  8. Take 1 tsp Chana dhal
  9. Make ready 1 tsp Urad dhal
  10. Make ready 1 tsp Jeera
  11. Take 1/2 tsp Pepper
  12. Make ready For gravy
  13. Take 1 Tomato
  14. Make ready Tamarind lemon sized
  15. Get 6 Lady’s finger
  16. Make ready 1 pinch Asafoetida
  17. Prepare 1 tsp Chilli powder
  18. Make ready 1/2 tsp Coriander powder
  19. Prepare 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
  20. Make ready Salt as per taste
  21. Take For tempering
  22. Make ready 1 tsp Tamarind juice
  23. 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:
  1. Sauté all the ingredients mentioned for grinding in a pan and let it cook and grind with water
  2. In apa. Add mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, shallots, garlic and sauté for a while
  3. After sauting for a while add tomato and chilli powder, coriander powder and turmeric powder and sauté for a while
  4. Cut lady’s finger and sauté until a beat brown
  5. Add ground paste to the sautéed shallots garlic and tomato
  6. After a while add sautéed lady’s finger and cook for a while
  7. Add asafoetida and check for salt
  8. Add tamarind juice and cook for a while
  9. 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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