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cauliflower fry curry recipe /gobi poriyal/stir fry

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Total Time 20 minutes
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • Cauliflower florets - 1 cup remove florets from the vegetable
  • Salt to taste
  • Fine chopped small onions - 2-3 tbsp
  • Some curry leaves
  • Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp for poriyal and 1/4 tsp when cleaning flower
  • Oil - 3 tsp
To grind:
  • Grated coconut - 2-3 tbsp
  • Roasted bengal gram/pottukadalai - 1 tsp
  • Sombu/fennel - 1/2 tsp
  • Garlic cloves - 2-3
  • Dry red chillies - 1-2

Method
 

  1. First remove florets from the vegetable add this to boiling water with some turmeric and salt.
  2. Wait for 2-3 minutes and remove florets from the water and keep drained.
  3. In-between grind the “to grind”ingredients by adding water to a paste,keep ready.
  4. Keep a kadai with oil add mustard to splutter.
  5. Add small onions with some curry leaves.
  6. Saute for few minutes.
  7. Add the florets with needed salt and turmeric powder.
  8. Close the lid on medium flame to cook it in its own juices.
  9. If you want you can sprinkle some water and cook.
  10. Now the veggie will be cooked with little crunch.
  11. Add the masala and keep on stirring till the rawness from the masala goes off and coats the veggie.
  12. Switch off the stove when done or again close the lid in low flame for some time then switch off.

Notes

This is a different type of poriyal from the usual.
Its a best side dish with some sambar rice,rasam or curd rice.
The veggie tastes delicious with little crunch other wise it becomes soggy and tasteless.