- Submitted by Beryl
(Scallion Stir Fry)
Spring onion or scallion is found in almost all vegetable shops. I have seen people using this in fried rice, noodles, soup etc. I thought of preparing poriyal with this healthy vegetable.
Recipe for Spring Onion Poriyal
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
Serves:4
Ingredients
- Spring onion- 1 bunch
- Onion- 1 small
- Green chilly - 1 or 2
For Grinding
- Coconut (grated) - 1/2 cup
- Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
- Green chilies - 3 to 4 nos
- Turmeric powder- 1 tbsp
- Salt - as necessary
- Shallots - 2 to 3
- Ginger - 1 small piece
- Garlic - 3 cloves
For Garnishing
- Mustard seeds- 1 tsp
- Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
- Curry leaves - 10
- Dry red chillies - 2 numbers
- Cooking oil - 2 to 3 tsp
- Urid dhal- 2 to 3 tsp
- Shallots - 2 to 3
Method
- First cut the spring onion greens and onion into small pieces. Keep all the remaining ingredients ready.
- Now grind all the ingredients given under the grinding section into a coarse paste. Don't add any water while grinding. Don't grind too much. Make it a coarse paste.
- Heat a pan, first add cooking oil. When the oil is hot, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, dry red chillies, urid dhal and shallots one by one. Stir it in between and keep stove on low to medium flame so that the ingredients do not become black in colour.
- Now add spring onion leaves and onion. Mix well and cook on medium flame. No need to add water while preparing this recipe.
- When it is almost cooked, add the coarsely grounded paste and mix well.
- Check for salt. Add salt or red chili powder if necessary. Stir on low flame till there is no moisture or water left on the pan. It's ready to serve with rice.
Variation
- Instead of grinding ginger and garlic, you can also add ginger garlic paste while garnishing. In that way, the raw smell of garlic and ginger will diminish in the poriyal.
- Also instead of grinding coconut, you can even spread the grated coconut over the almost cooked spring onion and mix well.
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