Valakkai Podimas/ Plantain Podimas

10:17 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:

• Vazhakkai/Plantain - 1
• Onion - 1
• Green chillies - 1
• Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
• Grated Coconut - 1 tbsp
• Mustard seeds - 1 tbsp
• Curry leaves - few
• Urud dal - 1 tbsp
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Cut plantain into cubes and chop onion and green chillies.
• Grind cumin seeds and coconut into paste.
• In a frying pan, add oil, mustard seeds, urud dal, and curry leaves.
• Now add chopped onions and green chillies, saute this for few minutes.
• Then add the cubed plantain along with the salt.
• Add little water along with ground paste and cover the pan with lid to cook.
• Switch off the stove once it is cooked.

Cooking time: 20 minutes
This goes very well with rasam.