Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chayote squash/chow chow poriyal. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chayote squash/chow chow poriyal is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Chayote squash/chow chow poriyal is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
Chow chow poriyal recipe is a simple and easy South Indian style chayote squash side dish. This recipe has chow chow flavored with coconut and Apart from chow chow poriyal, another dish that I equally like is chow chow kootu. As for health benefits, chow chow is low in calories and is a good.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chayote squash/chow chow poriyal using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chayote squash/chow chow poriyal:
- Take 1 chayote squash
- Prepare 1 onion
- Take 3 green chillies
- Make ready 2 red chillies
- Take 3 tablespoons moong dal soaked
- Prepare 2 tablespoons Grated coconut
- Get 1 teaspoon mustard
- Take leaves Curry
- Make ready As required Salt
We usually make stew using this vegetable, but we can also make healthy and tasty poriyal. In this recipe, I have enriched the poriyal by adding onions, capsicum and coconut. Chow Chow poriyal or chayote squash stir fry is simple, easy and healthy recipe that can be had as side dish for rice. goes good even for phulkas. check out. Chow Chow Pasi Paruppu Poriyal Recipe.
Steps to make Chayote squash/chow chow poriyal:
- Cut the chayote squash into cubes and chop the onions into bite sized.Make sure the moongdal is soaked for around 15 minutes and drained.
- In a pan add oil and mustard,once crackled add curry leaves.After add the chillies and wait for them to crackle.
- Add in the onions and wait for them to turn translucent.
- Add in the chopped chayote squash and required salt.cover and cook for 5 minutes.
- After 5 minutes once the squash is half cooked add in the soaked moong dal, cover and cook for another 10 minutes.
- Once cooked add in the grated coconut, stir and switch off the stove.
- It’s done!
Chayote Squash is high in fibre and had negligible amount of calories making it diabetic friendly. It also a great source of trace minerals which is required to maintain a healthy metabolic rate in the human body, hence helps. These days the hot summer makes me crave for cooling fruits and vegetables. If you have been following me you will know that I love to cook with seasonal produce. Chow Chow or Chayote squash is a well known and very common vegetable used in the famous South Indian Kootu.
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