Name: Omakkaya Payar Koottaan
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 1 No Omakkaya (Pappaya, Green); 1 cup Payar (White/Red or both together) (Soak the Payar for about 3 hours so that it can cook easily, Cowpea); 1 – Red Chilli Powder; 1 tspn Turmeric Powder; Salt (To taste); 5 – Curry leaves; 2 tspns Coconut Oil

Omakkaya Payar Koottaan

Omakkaya Payar Koottaan

It is a quick and easy curry prepared within minutes and tastes awesome. It goes well with boiled rice.

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Prep Time 20

Total Time 20

Cuisine Kerala

Servings people

Ingredients

1 No Omakkaya Pappaya, Green
1 cup Payar (White/Red or both together) Soak the Payar for about 3 hours so that it can cook easily, Cowpea
1 – Red Chilli Powder
1 tspn Turmeric Powder
Salt To taste
5 – Curry leaves
2 tspns Coconut Oil

Instructions

Peel the Omakkaaya, cut it into small pieces and wash the pieces in normal water
Change the Omakkaaya (Pappaya) pieces into a cooking vessel/pressure cooker along with the soaked Payar (cowpea) and add Turmeric Powder, Red Chilli Powder and required quantity of water and salt
Cook the mix for about 20 – 25 minutes or as required, in medium flame
After cooking the mix properly, put off the stove and change the Koottaan to a serving vessel and add the Curry leaves and Coconut oil and stir it for 2 – 3 minutes (for getting more taste and flavour you can add grinded Coconut along with some Onion and Cumin seeds in this koottaan before adding Curry leaves and Coconut oil).
Omakkaaya (Pappaya, Green) and Payar (Cowpea) Koottaan is ready. This is a good side dish for Chappathi/Poori/cooked rice etc.