Have yous always noticed that when nosotros are stressed/rushed/hurried, nosotros gravitate towards comfort food. What is comfort food?? Different people may choose unlike definitions for it. For me, comfort nutrient is nutrient that yous grew upwards with; nutrient that is familiar to you. Food that makes yous nostalgic; nutrient that yous tin laid upwards alongside your eyes closed; without whatsoever thought! That to me is comfort food!! What is comfort nutrient for you?
When I am inwards a rush, I similar to laid upwards things that are familiar as well as that which I tin laid upwards without whatsoever witting thought! This for me is alongside our traditional Konkani nutrient that is actually tardily to seat together. There is non much prep fourth dimension or laid upwards fourth dimension involved. They are real uncomplicated recipes without a long listing of spices inwards them. The ingredients are real few as well as need solely 3-4 ingredients apart from the primary vegetables that are beingness used. These commonly are: cooking oil, mustard seeds as well as cherry-red chilli peppers. The degree of heat tin live on easily modified based on private preference without compromising the taste. In this recipe the vegetables used are potatoes and ivy gourd. Ivy gourd is equally good known equally gherkin/tendle/tendli/kowakkai/kundru/tindora/tonde kai. Check out this recipe.
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: fifteen mins
Total time: 25 mins
Servings: 3-4
Ingredients:
Tendle/Tendli/Kowai/ Ivy gourd: 250 gms or 10 oz
Potatoes: 2 medium sized.
Coconut oil: 1 tsp
Mustard seeds: 1 tsp
Dried cherry-red chillies: 1-2 medium sized, broken into ii pieces.
Salt: equally per taste
Water: 1/4 cup
Freshly grated coconut: 1 tbsp ( for garnishing)( optional).
Method:
Peel the potatoes. Wash them as well as cutting them into 1 inch length pieces alongside 0.5 cms thickness.
Wash the ivy gourd thoroughly. Chop the tips off at both ends of the ivy gourd. If it is cherry-red inside, discard it. Slice the ivy gourd thinly along the length of the ivy gourd. Each ivy gourd can live on sliced into 6-8 slices. Slice all the ivy gourd in this fashion and keep aside.
Heat kokosnoot crude as well as mustard seeds inwards a sauté pan. Once the mustard seeds crackle, add together broken dried cherry-red chillies. Now add together the sliced ivy gourd and chopped potatoes. Add salt, H2O and mix well. Cover as well as laid upwards on depression flaming until both the ivy gourd and potatoes are tender( around 10-15 mins), sauteing once inwards a while.
Turn off the flame. Garnish alongside freshly grated coconut.
Serve hot alongside rice or flatbread/ roti.
Enjoy.
I am bringing this to Saucy Sabbatum #53!
Cooking made easy:
The higher upwards dish tin live on made quicker if cooked inwards a pressure level pan. After adding the sliced ivy gourd, potatoes, tabular array salt as well as water, convey it to a boil, unopen the pressure level pan lid. Place the weight/whistle of the pressure level cooker as well as laid upwards on medium flaming until yous listen the kickoff whistle. Turn off the flame. Wait for the pressure level to live on completely released earlier opening the lid. Garnish alongside freshly grated kokosnoot if yous wish.
Tip for good for yous living:
Ivy gourd is an extremely good for yous vegetable that is fat-free as well as fiber rich.It is a bully root if iron, vitamin B2, thiamine as well as dietary calcium.It has been used to process leprosy, fever, asthma, bronchitis, as well as jaundice. The fruit possesses mast cell-stabilizing, antianaphylactic, and antihistaminic potential. References:
http://www.livestrong.com/article/553875-nutritional-value-in-tondli/
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