Healthy Food Recipes - Carrot & Potato Poriyal
Posted on: 03/Dec/2014 12:35:33 PM
Ingredients:
- Carrot – 250 gmsPotato – 1 medium size
- Red Chilli / Green Chilli– 3 nos
- Onion – 1 nos
- Curry leaves – A few
- Salt – To taste
- Oil – 4 Spoon
- Mustard Seeds – ½ spoon
- Cumin Seeds – ½ Spoon
- Urad Dhal – 1 spoon
Method:
- Rinse and peel off the carrot and grate it finely ((more finely, faster they will cook).
- Same way, rinse and peel off the potato and cut it into small even sized pieces.
- Heat the pan with 4 spoon of oil and urad dal, mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
- Fry till the mustard seed make a popping sound and the urad dal get maroonish golden. Make sure you don’t burn them.
- Then add either the chopped red chilli or green chilli.
- Now add the curry leaves and add chopped onion.
- Sauté the onion until get the colour turns to be golden.
- Now add the potato pieces and add salt to taste and allow it to boil well for about 3 minutes.
- Now it’s time to add the grated carrots and stir well.
- Sprinkle some water if the moisture dries in the pan and close the lid so that the veggies can cook well.
- Stir the dish once in every 2 minutes and after 10 minutes switch off the flame.
- Transfer it into a small vessel and sprinkle few coriander leaves for garnishing.
Note:
- It is always advisable to peel off and rinse the carrot using the tap water, thereby the germs present in the carrot skin can be get rid of.
- If the carrot doesn’t have enough sweet taste than usual, we can very well add a spoon of sugar once the veggies got cooked well.
- Carrot is very essential in our daily diet, as it is good for proper eye sight.
- Carrot can augment our body’s immune system.
- It is well known to avert heart disease and controls blood sugar levels.
- Regular intake of carrot boost eye sight.
- Carrot reduced the blood pressure and the menace of stroke.
- It aids prevent from cancer and shields you from liver diseases.
- Doctors suggests to use carrots in our daily diet because of its beta-carotene and fibre rich content.
