Broccoli Poriyal

Today's recipe for the Cook Book Challenge,I am sharing you a simple and healthy stir fry/poriyal with broccoli.
This recipe I noted down from my sister's recipe collections and tried it.This poriyal goes very well with rice and some spicy kulambhu such as milagu kulambhu or poondu kulambhu.But I personally prefer to mix it with rice along a dash of ghee.Either way it tastes good,lets move on to the recipe................................

Broccoli Poriyal

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  Basic Information

   Preparation time ~15 minutes

   Cooking time ~ 20 minutes

   Serves ~ 2

    

  
 Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity
Broccoli florets	2 cups
Onion(fineley chopped)	1 (small size)
Toor dhal/thuvaram paruppu	2 tbs
Coconut(grated)	2 tbs
Green chilly/pachamilagai	1(slit into 2)
Curry leaves/karivepillai	few leaves
Salt	3/4 tsp+1/2 tsp
Oil	2 tsp

 For the tempering

Ingredient	Quantity
Mustard seeds/kadugu	1/2 tsp
Urad dhal/ulutham paruppu	1 tsp
Red chilly/varamilagai	1(broken)
Asafoetida/perungayam	a pinch

  

  Method 

• In bowl take water put the 1/2 tsp o salt and add the broccoli florets,keep it for 2-3 minutes and drain the water.Now chop the florets and the thin stems to smaller pieces.Pressure cook the toor dhal with enough water for a whistle in a medium flame (it should not turn mushy).

• Meanwhile steam the broccoli in a idly vessel till it becomes soft and keep it aside.

• Heat a pan with oil and do the tempering and add the green chilly,onion and curry leaves.Saute it along with a pinch of salt.Now add the steamed broccoli and sprinkle the remaining salt.

• Toss it well,add in the cooked dhal and grated coconut.Mix it well and keep it the flame for 2-3 minutes.Put off the flame.

• Serve it rice and kulambhu.

Enjoy...........................................................

Instead of toor dhal,channa dhal can be used.

Chop the broccoli to smaller pieces to get a nice taste.

This recipe is off  to Cook Book Challenge #11 August week 4.