Mangalore style palya | South Indian sauteed veggies!
Vegetables cooked in aromatic seasonings and finished with fresh grated coconut.
Ingredients
- 4 cups chopped yard long beans
- ¼ cup fresh/frozen grated coconut
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
- ½ tsp red chilli powder
- ½ tbsp jaggery unrefined Indian sugar, optional
- ¾ tsp salt adjust to taste
- ½ tsp saarina hudi/rasam powder optional
- ¼-½ cup water
For hot oil seasoning/oggarane
- 2 tsp coconut oil or any oil of your choice
- ½ tsp black mustard seeds
- 1½ tsp de-husked black gram/urad dal/uddina bele
- 1½ tsp split chickpeas/chana dal/kadle bele optional, but adds a nice texture
- ¼ tsp cumin seeds optional
- 1 dry red chilli
- 1 twig curry leaves optional but recommended
Instructions
- Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan.
- Add mustard seeds.
- When mustard seeds splutter, add chana dal, urad dal, cumin seeds, dry red chilli and stir till urad dal turns golden.
- Add curry leaves.
- Add chopped veggies.
- Add turmeric powder, red chilli powder, jaggery, salt and 1/4 cup of water.
- Cover and let it cook on medium heat. As this is a dry side of vegetable, there should not be any water left at the end of cooking. So, add more water as and when needed.
- Stir occasionally.
- When vegetables are almost cooked, add grated fresh coconut(or defrosted, grated frozen coconut)
- Cover and cook until vegetables are cooked.
- Add saarina pudi/rasam powder, if using. Mix and turn off the heat.
- Serve palya with rice, roti/chapathi.
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Notes
- The lentils and spices used are found in Indian grocery stores.
- an alternative to the above procedure - The vegetable can first be cooked(instructions 5-10). Then heat oil in another heavy bottomed pan and continue with the hot oil seasoning(instructions 1-4). Pour this hot oil over the cooked veggies and mix.
- Palya can be prepared with many other vegetables. Please find the list of vegetables above in the writeup.
- How palya is traditionally eaten - I start my meal by mixing a portion of my rice with ghee and mixing in the palya. I end my meal with a portion of my rice mixed with yogurt and palya.
- A Mangalorean everyday meal typically consists of rice, palya and a curry with gravy like this coconut yogurt curry(majjige huli).