Chayote squash/chow chow poriyal. Chow chow poriyal recipe is a simple and easy South Indian style chayote squash side dish. This recipe has chow chow flavored with coconut and Apart from chow chow poriyal, another dish that I equally like is chow chow kootu. As for health benefits, chow chow is low in calories and is a good.
The vegetable is first steamed and then tempered the Indian way.
It makes for a quick, easy side-dish and can be served with roti or rice.
Chow Chow poriyal or chayote squash stir fry is simple, easy and healthy recipe that can be had as side dish for rice. goes good even for phulkas. check out.
Hey everyone, it's Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, chayote squash/chow chow poriyal. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I'm gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chow chow poriyal recipe is a simple and easy South Indian style chayote squash side dish. This recipe has chow chow flavored with coconut and Apart from chow chow poriyal, another dish that I equally like is chow chow kootu. As for health benefits, chow chow is low in calories and is a good.
Chayote squash/chow chow poriyal is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It's appreciated by millions every day. It's simple, it's fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chayote squash/chow chow poriyal is something which I've loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chayote squash/chow chow poriyal using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chayote squash/chow chow poriyal:
- {Make ready 1 of chayote squash.
- {Take 1 of onion.
- {Make ready 3 of green chillies.
- {Get 2 of red chillies.
- {Get 3 tablespoons of moong dal soaked.
- {Take 2 tablespoons of Grated coconut.
- {Take 1 teaspoon of mustard.
- {Get leaves of Curry.
- {Make ready As required of Salt.
Chow Chow or Chayote Squash is one of the healthy vegetable with less calories. We usually make stew using this vegetable, but we can also make healthy and tasty poriyal. In this recipe, I have enriched the poriyal by adding onions, capsicum and coconut. These days the hot summer makes me crave for cooling fruits and vegetables.
Steps to make Chayote squash/chow chow poriyal:
- Cut the chayote squash into cubes and chop the onions into bite sized.Make sure the moongdal is soaked for around 15 minutes and drained..
- In a pan add oil and mustard,once crackled add curry leaves.After add the chillies and wait for them to crackle..
- Add in the onions and wait for them to turn translucent..
- Add in the chopped chayote squash and required salt.cover and cook for 5 minutes..
- After 5 minutes once the squash is half cooked add in the soaked moong dal, cover and cook for another 10 minutes..
- Once cooked add in the grated coconut, stir and switch off the stove..
- It’s done!.
If you have been following me you will know that I love to cook with seasonal produce. Chow Chow or Chayote squash is a well known and very common vegetable used in the famous South Indian Kootu. Chayote Squash or in tamil we call it as Chow Chow is a very healthy veggie. It is one veggie less in calories and also rich in vitamin. I have enriched the poriyal by adding onions and capsicum and also dry grinding raosted gram dal along with coconut.
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