Raw banana with cow peas

Raw banana with cow peas (വാഴയ്ക്കയും പയറും )

Ingredients:

1. Banana                     1 cup(peel its outer skin,cut in to square pieces)

2. Cow pieces               ½ cup(kuthirthathu)

3. Coconut                    1 cup,grated(medium sized coconut)

    Green chilly              5 no

    Onion small              6 no

    Turmeric powder           

4. Coconut oil               2 tbsp

5. Mustard                   1 tbsp

6. Curry leaves            1 spring

7. Salt                           as desired

8. Small onion              4 nos (cut in to small pieces)

Method of preparation:

1)   Put cow pieces in a vessel with soaking water, salt and pinch of turmeric powder. Keep it on flame till it is half cooked. To this add Banana cooked this mixture well.

2)  Grind the 3^rd items well.

3)  Add this mixture to the above cooked dish,keep it in low flame till it boiling.

4) Heat oil in a pan and sprinkle in mustard seeds. When they start sputtering add curry leaves and onion piecess stirr well till onions colour become brown,Add these in to the above mixture, stir well.

Bitter gourd Meezhukkupuratti

Bitter gourd (പാവയ്ക്ക ) Mezhukkupuratti

Ingredients:

1) Pavakka (bitter gourd)    1 cup (clean it and cut in to thin lengthy pieces)

2) Onion large                      2 no (cut in to small pieces)

    Salt                                   As needed

    Turmeric Powder             As Needed

    Coconut pieces    ¼ cup

    Green chilly         4 no(slit through center)

3) Mustard               2 tsp

  Curry leafs           1 spring

  Coconut Oil          As needed

Method of preparation

1. Take one or two pavakka (bitter gourd) with items under (2) in one dish, mix well with hand.
2. Heat oil in a pan and sprinkle in mustard seeds.When they start sputtering add curry leaves. Add the above mixture to this, keep it on a low flame stirring occasionally.When its color become faded (or check if it is cooked well by taking piece out) swich off the flame.