Today’s recipe is a simple yet delicious preparation with colocasia in yoghurt based gravy . Boiled colocasia are fried and then cooked in spicy tomato masala and yoghurt .
A juicy preparation with softness and sweetness of colocasia makes it a perfect combination with spices. So let’s start the recipe .yum
Ingredients:
250 g colocasia /Taro roots , boiled
1 onion , chopped
3-4 garlic cloves , chopped
2 teaspoon ginger , grated
2 tomatoes , chopped
3 green chillies , chopped
1 teaspoon carom seeds
Spices
1 teaspoon red Chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 teaspoon coriander powder
1 teaspoon garam masala powder
Salt to taste
1 cup yoghurt , blended with 2 cups of water
Vegetable oil for frying
Coriander leaves , to garnish
Method:
Heat oil in a wok and fry the colocasia till golden from both sides. Drain and flatten with palms , set aside.
Remove extra oil from wok , leaving 2-3 tablespoons , add carom seeds , garlic and ginger . Sauté for a minute.
Add chopped onions and saute for 3 minutes , add all spices and salt followed by tomatoes and chillies.Cook till tomatoes are tender and oil comes out from edges.
Add yoghurt liquid and cook till it boils , add fried colocasia and cook again till you get desired consistency.
Remove from heat , add chopped coriander and serve hot.
Serve -4. Cooking time-30 minutes
Best regards,
Sapana Behl
Very very dealicious Sapana, nicely made…
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Nice Recipe Sapana 🙂