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Olan
Olan

Cuisine Style Kerala | Cooking Time 30 minutes
To Serve 4 | Take with Rice or Roti
Type Lunch

Ingredients

Black-eyed beans - 1 cup
Ash gourd (Surakkai) - 1 cup
Coconut milk - 1 cups
Green chillies - 3 nos
Oil - 1 tbs
Jeera Powder - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves
Salt

Preparation

  • Soak Black-eyed beans overnight and boil it in pressure cook.
  • Cut white pumpkin into 1 inch cubical shape.
  • Prepare one cup of coconut milk and mix 1/2 tbs rice flour (for who likes thick gravy).
  • In a pan heat oil and put mustard seed then curry leaves.
  • Then add slit green chillies and salt and fry for 1 to 2 minutes.
  • Pour 2 cups of water and sprinkle jeera powder.
  • Put Ash gourd into it and boil till soft.
  • Now add coconut milk.
  • Reduce the flame.
  • Take out of the flame after 2 to 3 minutes.
  • Serve hot.

Note

You can add pumpkin (Poosanikkai) also.

Tips

Use coconut oil for better flavor.


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