Beetroot Curry | Beetrool Stir fry(Poriyal) | Easy Side dishes

After a heavy dose of oily food and sweets from the past couple of weeks because of Diwali I have been preparing very simple food for the last couple of days.This is a simple stir fry recipe which is prepared in most of the south Indian house holds.It goes well with steamed rice or as a side dish for sambar/rasam and dal rice.

 

Beetroot Stir fry | Beetroot Palya(Curry) Recipe:

(Serves 3-4)

Ingredients:

2 big Beetroots,peeled and finely chopped

1/3 cup grated fresh Coconut

3-4 Green chillies

2 whole Red chillies

1 tbsp Chana dal

1 tsp Urad dal

1/2 tsp Cumin seeds

1/2 tsp Mustard seeds

8-10 Curry leaves

juice of 1/2 lemon(optional)

a pinch of Asafoetida

salt to taste

2 tsp Oil

Method:

• Steam chopped beetroot pieces with few pinches of salt either in pressure cooker(without whistle) or steamer for 8-10 mins.You can even microwave them on HIGH for 4-5 mins.Strain them and keep aside.
• Heat a spoon of oil in a pan/kadai and crackle mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
• Add asafoetida,chana dal,urad dal,red chillies and curry leaves and fry for a minute.
• Grind grated coconut with green chillies and salt to a coarse masala.It should not become a paste,it should be like just roughly coarse ground masala.
• Add cooked and strained beetroot pieces and stir fry for 2 mins.
• Now add ground coconut-green chili masala and fry for another minute or two.
• Switch off the flame and add lemon juice and give a stir.

Serve it with rice,dal/rasam/sambar and papad.

Variations:

1. You can follow the same process for vegetables like carrots,beans-carrot,raw banana,cluster beans,yard long beans,cauliflower etc.
2. You can skip the steaming part and can make with the vegetables like ladies finger,cabbage etc.You need to saute them well for 7-8 mins before adding ground coconut masala.
3. You can add red chili powder instead of green chillies,it would slightly change in color.
4. You can add 1 tbsp kurala podi along with the ground coconut masala to the stir fry,in that case reduce the amount of green chillies to 2 in the recipe.This gives a nice taste to curry.
5. If you want you can add finely chopped onion to the pan and saute well and then proceed with adding chopped beetroot pieces and ground masala.