Celery Payaru Thoran

Description

• Ethnicity - South Indian
• Type of meal - Party, Lunch, Dinner

Ingredients

• 6 – 8 sticks celery chopped
• ½ cup green moong (cherupayar) cooked to ¾ th
• ¾ cup grated coconut
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 small piece ginger cut into julienne strips
• 6 green chillies chopped (can alter based on taste)
• 2 – 3 dried red chillies
• 1 stick curry leaves
• 1 tsp mustard
• ½ tsp cumin
• 1 tbsp oil

Procedures

1. Heat oil in a pan.
2. Add mustard to it and let it splutter.
3. Just pound the garlic and cumin together and add it to the oil and fry it for few seconds.
4. Add ginger, chopped onions, green chillies, curry leaves, red chillies and fry it for a minute.
5. Add the celery and coconut and cook it till the celery is half cooked.
6. Add the cooked cherupayar and cook it covered for some more until everything is evenly cooked.
7. Add salt to taste.