Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, ivygourd/tindoora/ kovakkai stir fry. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Ivygourd/Tindoora/ Kovakkai stir fry is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Ivygourd/Tindoora/ Kovakkai stir fry is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Ivy Gourd is known by different names in Indian languages like Tindora, Kovakkai, Dondakaya, Tendli. It can be cooked in many variations. Kovakka mezhukkuperatti/ivy gourd stir fry is one of the tasty recipe from Kerala, Kovakka or Ivy guard is known for the presence of nutritious elements.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have ivygourd/tindoora/ kovakkai stir fry using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ivygourd/Tindoora/ Kovakkai stir fry:
- Take For marinating
- Take 500 g ivygourd
- Prepare 1/4 tspn turmeric powder
- Make ready Salt
- Get For tempering
- Make ready 4 tbspn oil
- Get 1 tspn mustard seeds
- Take 1/2 tspn urad dhal
- Make ready 1 tspn chanadhal
- Take 1 onion (chopped)
- Get 1 tspn red chilli powder
- Make ready 1 tspn coriander powder
- Make ready 1/2 tspn jeera/cumin seeds
Other favourite stir fry recipes are here: STIR FRY/ DRY CURRY Recipes. Keep frying until everything sticks well to the tindora. You will notice that the water content in tindora will start to absorb all the masala powder turning the dish little dry. Add curry leaves and fry for another couple of minutes and switch off.
Steps to make Ivygourd/Tindoora/ Kovakkai stir fry:
- Cut the ivygourd,add turmeric powder and salt. Set aside.
- Heat oil, add mustard seeds, urad dhal, chanadhal. Fry til golden.
- Add cumin seeds after it cracks add onions. Saute till golden brown.
- Add red chilli powder and saute till raw smell disappears. Add the ivygourd and mix well.
- Next add coriander powder and sprinkle water. Cover with lid and cook for 5 minutes. Open and cook for another 10 mintues till it's nice and dry.
The final dish should look something like this… little dry and crisp. Once the onions are sauted well add the ivy gourd / kovakkai pieces, mix and saute them well, then add turmeric powder, hing, coriander powder, red chili powder and salt, mix well, also add sufficient amount of water, let the ivy gourd pieces cook well, place a lid to. Ivygourd Curry or Kovakkai Curry was not only a tasty dish but also quite simple to prepare. Healthy n easy veggie.nothing easier than this. Kovakkai (Ivy gourd in English and Tindora in Hindi) is a healthy vegetable but rarely consumed in many households.
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