Kovakkai Poriyal/Ivy Gourd Fry
Kovakkai Poriyal/Ivy Gourd Fry

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, kovakkai poriyal/ivy gourd fry. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Welcome to Indolanka Food Channel, today recipe is Kovakkaai Poriyal, which is very healthy and tasty. Do try this recipe and give your valuable comments. Kovakkai poriyal recipe with step by step pics.

Kovakkai Poriyal/Ivy Gourd Fry is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Kovakkai Poriyal/Ivy Gourd Fry is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have kovakkai poriyal/ivy gourd fry using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Kovakkai Poriyal/Ivy Gourd Fry:
  1. Get 1/2 kg Kovakkai/ Ivy Gourd
  2. Make ready 2 tsp Oil
  3. Make ready 1/4 tsp Mustard seeds
  4. Get 1 Medium Size Onion chopped
  5. Make ready Curry leaves few
  6. Take 1 Dry Red Chillies broken
  7. Take 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
  8. Take 1 tsp Sambar powder
  9. Get Salt-as per your taste
  10. Make ready Water-as required

We used to have this vegetable once in two weeks without fail for its goodness. This stir fry is very basic. Kovakkai fry or poriyal/ tindora fry is a simple of all tindora recipes and easy to prepare. Learn how to make kovakkai fry with full video.

Steps to make Kovakkai Poriyal/Ivy Gourd Fry:
  1. Wash and cut the Kovakkai/ Ivy Gourd into thin round slices.
  2. In a kadai, add oil. Once oil gets heat, add mustard seeds. Let it splutter.
  3. Add onions, curry leaves and dry red chilli. Saute till onions becomes translucent.
  4. Add turmeric powder. Saute for a minute.
  5. Then add the sliced Kovakkai/ ivy gourd, sambar powder and salt. Saute well.
  6. Add required water. Cover with a lid and cook till Kovakkai/ ivy gourd gets cooked.
  7. Now it's ready to serve. Serve as a Sidedish for your lunch.

Heat kadai/frying pan with oil and temper with the mustard, cumin, curry leaves. Add onion, if adding, to it and fry till golden brown. Kovakkai is a very popular and common vegetable prepared in all most all the houses in South India. It is very versatile vegetable with which you can make different varieties of dishes like stuffed tindora, tindora biryani etc. But its not going to be very tasty and you might need a Gelusil or Tums later.

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