Sunday, September 21, 2014

Oolan


Serves: 4~5
Preparation time: 15min 
Cooking time: 20min 

Ingredients
* White Pumpkin - 200gm
* Coconut Milk (diluted) - ½cup
* Coconut Milk (thick) - ½cup
* Green Chillies - 2~3nos
* Lobia (Karamani) - 5nos
* Curry leaves - 10nos
* Coconut oil - 25ml
* Salt - ½tsp (adjust to your taste)

Method
* Soak the Lobia for 2hrs and pressure cook it
* Peel skin from White Pumpkin and cut into ½ x 1 inch long pieces
* Cut Green Chilles into long slits
* Cook the cut pumpkin along with salt until it becomes soft 
* Add cooked Lobia and slit Green Chillies  and thin Coconut Milk and bring it to boil
* Simmer the flame and now add thick Coconut Milk
* Keep them in simmer for 1~2 min and switch off the flame
* After 2~3min add Coconut oil and curry leaves

Note: 
* Add brown/black Lobia, if possible, it will a contrast look along with the transparent pumpkin and white coconut milk