Arubi Dry Curry

January 21, 2010





Today I am here again with a dry curry recipe which is another favorite choice of my husband. In Hindi you can call it is as arubi fry. In Tamil, it is called as sivapan kizhangu kai.It is very easy to make and very delicious in taste.



I would recommend for the people who are overweight or trying to reduce weight please avoid eating this vegetable very frequently because this is to be considered as very high calorie vegetables.



So here is recipe for it





Sivapan Kizhangu Kai (Arubi Dry Curry)





Preparation time: 5 minutes



Cooking time: 20 minutes



Serving: 4 persons



Ingredients



Taro (Arubi)-300 grams washed properly



Oil-2 tbs



Mustard seeds-1/2 tsp



Broken Black gram (Urad Dal) 1/2 tsp



Salt-to taste



Turmeric Powder-1/2 tsp



Chili Powder-1 tsp



Curry leaves-4-5



Asafetida-a pinch



Method



? Boil the washed taro with its jacket in sufficient water in wide mouth pan till it becomes tender.



? Then allow it to get cool down.



? Remove the skin and cut it in 2 inch pieces.



? Now heat oil in a pan.



? Add mustard seed, broken black gram dal curry leaves and asafetida in this.



? Allow mustard seed to crack.



? Then add taro pieces in this along with turmeric and chili powder.



? Add salt to taste.



? Keep frying in low flame till it gets nicely fried and turns to light red color.



? Serve hot with samber/dal and rice.



CALORIE COUNT



One serving of this curry contains 150 calorie approximately.



TIPS



? To check taro whether it is cooked or not, while boiling in water, just poke a knife. If knife goes in very smoothly then it is symbol that is is cooked completely.