Every Mom is unique and so are her dishes….
My recipes attributed to my Mom who regarded cooking as an art….. she enjoyed making each dish and made us all enjoy…
Following her trails I try to give my touch…..
Thoran is a typical vegetable side, served with boiled rice, a speciality of Kerala meals. The common element in the dish, is grated coconut, though the vegetable remains versatile, like most of the vegetables can be suffixed to be called a *Thoran, Cabbage Thoran, Carrot Thoran, Beans Thoran……list goes on. This recipe is a slight variant to the regular Thoran, as the amount of coconut used is very less as well as, the shallots, which give the piquant taste is not added in this special Thoran.
Ingredients
Sweet Potato. 1
Potato. 1
Carrot. 1
Onion. 1
Coconut grated. 1/2 Cup
Cabbage chopped 1/2 Cup
Chilli Flakes. 1 Tsp
Coconut oil. 3 Tbsp
Curry leaves
Salt to taste
Preparation
Wash the vegetables well and peel off the skin. Grate carrots, potato & sweet potato, in a food processor if available, alternatively can chop evenly. Dice cabbage and onions also evenly. In a broad frying pan, on medium flame, add coconut oil and diced onions, curry leaves, green chilli in series. Sauté few minutes adding in the crushed garlic. Add in the vegetables and mix well using spatula. Season with salt and cook covered for two minutes on low flame. Add the grated coconut, red chilli flakes and mill in few black pepper. Incorporate well and again cook covered for half a minute in order to ensure the flavour of coconut has blended well into the veggies. Let it stay on low flame for a while so that the condensed steam dries off. Gently transfer to a serving dish, covering with any mesh to let any remaining steam escape. Serve with boiled rice. Again its good stuffing to any bread sandwich or Indian roti.
*Typical Thoran recipe includes shallots & garlic along with coconut and is prepared in slight different way. I add here how generally it is made. I have taken here snake gourd to make this. As mentioned earlier many of the vegetables can be made into Thoran, with slight variations as adding red Chilli flakes instead of green chilli or adding both , and also adding cumin as a choice. Regardless of all these, the flavour of freshly grated coconut is the highlight of the dish.
Snake gourd Thoran
Shallots 3-4, garlic clove 1, turmeric powder 1/4 tsp, chopped snake -gourd 1&1/2 cup, grated coconut 1/2 Cup, green chilli 2 , coconut oil 1.5 Tbsp, curry leaves, salt to taste
Add oil to a pan and add crushed shallots/garlic , and when light brown,add in turmeric powder followed by grated coconut, curry leaves & green chilli and required salt. Finally add the vegetable and cook covered for few minutes. Open the lid and let the steam condensed dry off and that makes Thoran ready to be served. Caution not to get the vegetables over cooked. The link to multiple preparation is 👇
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