Saturday, May 23, 2009

Broccoli Pirattal

BROCCOLI PIRATTAL
Ingredients:

Broccoli – 3 florets
Onion – 1
Tomato – 1
Salt to taste
Green chillies – 3
Thick coconut milk – ½ cup
Water – ½ cup
Cloves and cinnamon – 1 each
Oil – 2 tsp
Saunf – ½ tsp

Method:
- chop the tomato and onion length wise
- separate the broccoli into florets and then add then to a bowl of hot boiling water with salt added to that
- after some time remove them and wash them thoroughly in running cold water
- in a pan add oil
- add saunf, clove and cinnamon
- add the onion and green chillies
- fry until they are transparent
- add tomato, salt to taste
- fry well
- add the water and then the cleaned broccoli
- then allow it to cook for 4 – 5 mins
- add the coconut milk
- mix well
- and serve hot as a side dish or as a salad



Note:


I have added few slices of pink carrots to the dish to add more flavour
Can be substituted with cabbage/ cauliflower/beans and peas etc

This is for the EVENT : COOKING 4 ALL SEASONS

2 comments:

Sindhura said...

Never heard of something like this.Sounds easy and innovative.
Drop in sometime to my blog!

Nithya said...

Nice dish.. looks yummy... :)

Here for the first time and must say you have a nice blog. :) will be back often.