Healthy Food Recipes - Thuthuvalai Thogayal (Pea Eggplant)
Posted on: 24/Jan/2015 3:46:18 PM
Ingredients
- Thuthuvalai keerai leaves – 1 cup
- Ginger – 1 inch long
- Garlic – 8 cloves
- Red Chilli – 3 nos
- Urad Dal – 2 spoon
- Bengal Gram – 2 spoon
- Tamarind – a small lemon size
- Salt – as Required
- Cooking oil – 5 spoon
- Mustard Seeds – 1/4 spoon
- Asafoetida – a pinch
Method:
- Clean the Thuthuvalai leaves carefully and free from thorns. The leave contains thorns on the backside and on the entire plant, so must be very careful in cleaning and should remove the thorns completely before cooking.
- Heat the pan with a spoon of oil and add Urad dal, Bengal gram and red chilli and saute well until the colour of the gram turns golden brown.
- Keep it aside in a separate plate.
- Again heat the pan with 3 spoons of oil. Add splinted ginger, garlic and Thuthuvalai leaves.
- Stir well continuously until the Thuthuvalai leaves gets shrinks.
- Remove it in a separate plate and allow it to cool.
- Grind the gram and red chilli mix by adding the required quantity of salt.
- Then add the Thuthuvalai, ginger and garlic mix and a little bit of tamarind and grind well.
- Heat the pan with a spoon of oil and add Urad dal, mustard seeds for tempering and put it on top of the Thogayal.
- The Thogayal tastes good with hot rice or even with Idli or dosai.
Note:
- Thuthuvalai is a medicinal creeper plant, leaves and stem - throns on it, carefully plucking it.
- The process of cleaning is very time consuming as it has thorns even on the leaves.
- You can remove the leaves alone from the creeper and use it for cooking. If the creeper is soft and tender you can also use the creeper.
- The quantity of tamarind level should be more than we generally use for Mint and Coriander leaves Thogayal.
- If needed you can also add a piece of coconut while grinding the grams.
- If you avoid coconut, then you can store it in the fridge and use it for about 2 to 3 days.
Thuthuvalai Leaves Uses:
- Helps in the blood generation and also blood flow all through the human body.
- Also aids in preventing the process of blood thickening.
- In India, Thuthuvalai herb is used as a traditional medicine and very good for treating common cold, asthma and cough.
- Aids reducing body heat and gas related disorders.
- Prevents throat infection.
- We can prepare many dishes using this herbal plant including rasam, kuzambhu, soup, adai and so on.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
