Tindora Fry is a side veggie dish recipe made by frying thinly sliced vegetable with a simple home style curry powder.
It pairs best with North Indian recipes as dal, chapati/roti or a south indian recipes as rice, chutney and sambar.
Tindora fry is one among the most cooked recipes to be a part of a delightful meal.
WHAT IS TINDORA?
Tindora is a tropical vegatable also called as ivy gourd in English. Also called as scarlet gourd, tindora, dondakaya or kowai fruit in other languages.
It resembles a small baby cucumber ,a very popular vegetable in India.Primarily grown in tropical climates, mostly the southern states of India this vegetable mostly cooked in the local cusines in a numerous ways .
INGREDIENTS TO MAKE TINDORA FRY
- Tindora : Green Tindora that are tender makes a delicous fry. Avoid red ones.
- For Curry Powder : Bengal gram/chana dal, black gram/urad dal, cumin, coriander seeds, dry red chiles, tamarind are required.
- Oil : For frying
HOW TO MAKE THE HOMEMADE CURRY POWDER?
To the curry powder with very little oil roast chana dal, urad dal, corinader seeds and red chiles. Use redchilies as per spice level.
Finally add tamarind, and salt, when cool blend in pulse mode to make a coarse powder.
Powder should be coarse as shown.
The curry powder stays good in a tight jar for 2 – 3 days. This curry powder is also good for other veggies like:
- Eggplant/brinjal
- Bitter gourd/ Karela
- Okra
TO MAKE TINDORA CURRY
Cut tindora in half length wise and thinly make 4 slices of each half. While you can cut any shape, it is preferable to slice thinly.
Heat pan and add some oil, when hot add tindora and fry it. Cover and cook for 10- 12 minutes. Season with salt to cook quicker. Stir occasionally to avoid burning.
When they are soft add the homemade curry powder, taste and ajust salt and chili powder to siut your taste.
Stir to mix and cook on low flame for another 3 – 4 minutes.
Serve hot with rice or roti. Also canbe served as a side dish for sambar.
This tindora fry is so delcious to eat any time course of meal. lunch or dinner. It stay good at room temperature for a day, refridgerates for 2 days. Warm and enjoy with rice.
Hope you try this recipe and like it as much as we do in our family.
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Tindora Fry | Dondakaya Karam | Ivy Gourd fry
Equipment
- Blender
- Medium Pan
Ingredients
For Curry Powder
- 1 tsp oil
- ½ tsp cumin
- 2 tsp chana dal/bengal gram
- 2 tsp urad dal/black gram
- 3-4 dry red chiles as per spicy level
- ¼ cup coriander seeds
- tamarind blueberry size
For Fry
- 3 tsp Oil
- 2 lbs Tindora
- ½ tsp turmeric
Instructions
- Roast all ingredients from the curry powder list and grind into a coarse powder.
- Wash Fresh tindora, trim both ends of the vegetable and cut to think slices.Cut in the center vertically and slice each section into four.
- Fry sliced tindora in medium pan with 3 tsps of Oil. Add turmeric, little salt.
- Cover and cook turing in between till tindora is soft. Takes 20 minutes approx.
- Add Coarse Curry powder and Mix well. Fry for 2 minutes.
- Serve as aside dish with Rice and Sambar or Chapati.
