Kovakkai Poriyal / Tindora Fry / Ivygourd sabji
Kovakkai Poriyal / Tindora Fry / Ivygourd sabji

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, kovakkai poriyal / tindora fry / ivygourd sabji. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Kovakkai Poriyal / Tindora Fry / Ivygourd sabji is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Kovakkai Poriyal / Tindora Fry / Ivygourd sabji is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

Kovakkai Varuval - Ivy Gourd Fry - Tindora Fry - Dondakaya Fry Recipe by Healthy Food Kitchen. #kovakkaiporiyal#ivygourdstirfry#tindorarecipe In this video, we will see how to make kovakkai stir fry recipe in traditional south Indian style. In this video I'll show you how to make Tindora sabji. It is also called Kundru or tendli or ivy guard or kovakkai.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have kovakkai poriyal / tindora fry / ivygourd sabji using 10 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Kovakkai Poriyal / Tindora Fry / Ivygourd sabji:
  1. Take 8 Ivygourd
  2. Prepare 1 Onion - medium chopped
  3. Take 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
  4. Take 1/2 tsp Kashmiri chili powder
  5. Take Salt - as needed
  6. Prepare 1/2 tsp Mustard
  7. Take 1/2 tsp Urad dal
  8. Take 6 - 7 Curry leaves
  9. Take 2 tbsps Oil
  10. Make ready dal Roasted gram (pottukaai) - 2 tsps

In our family,both my mom side and my MIL side,I have never seen them cooking kovakkai,don't know the reason though. But when I tasted for the first time in a friend's place I liked. 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.

Instructions to make Kovakkai Poriyal / Tindora Fry / Ivygourd sabji:
  1. Wash and slice ivygourd into thin round slices. The thinner it is, the faster it cooks
  2. Chop onion finely. Powder the roasted gram dal and keep it aside.
  3. Heat a thick bottomed pan. Add 1 tbsp oil
  4. When the oil is heated, add mustard and wait for it to splutter
  5. Add urad dal and curry leaves. Let the dal turn light brown
  6. Add onions and saute till it turns transparent
  7. Add sliced ivygourd and saute for 2 minutes
  8. Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and salt. Mix well
  9. Add 1/4 cup of water. Reduce the flame to low
  10. Cover and cook for 20-25 minutes. Open every 5 minutes and mix well
  11. When the ivygourd slices are cooked well and shrinks in size, add the powdered roasted gram dal and 1 tbsp oil
  12. Increase the flame to medium and mix thoroughly for 2 min. The powdered dal will turn to light brown. Switch off
  13. Serve hot with sambhar rice or rasam rice.

A classic south Indian vegan Ivy Gourd (Tindora) curry with spicy fennel powder. You can make this in few minutes. This stir fry is healthy and goes well with plain rice or any gravy. You can make poriyal/stir fry with almost all veggies like beans,carrot, cabbage. The Kovakkai Poriyal Recipe is a classic South Indian vegetable that you can serve for your everyday meals.

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