Olan Easy
Olan Traditional Kerala dish - Payar, elavan and mathan in coconut milk
Ingredients
Ingredients for Olan :
- 1/2 cup Black eyed beans Van payaru
- 2 cups White gourd chopped into thin slices of about 3 cm by 3 cm, Elavan
- 2 cups Yellow pumpkin chopped into thin slices of about 3 cm by 3 cm, Mathan
- 4 nos Green chillies slit
- 1/2 cup Grated coconut
- Curry leaves A few
- 1 tsp Coconut oil
- 1 tsp Cornflour
- Salt As reqd
Instructions
- Preparation Method of Olan : 1)Lightly roast the beans and soak it in water for 8 hrs. Wash & strain well.
- Extract 1/2 cup of thick milk and 1/2 cup of thin milk from the grated coconut.
- In a pressure pan, add beans, both vegetables, chillies and second coconut milk.
- Pressure cook upto 1 whistle.
- After opening the lid, add salt and thick milk mixed with cornflour.
- Simmer, stirring till the flour is cooked and all the ingredients are well blended.
- Add coconut oil and curry leaves.
- :- If you prefer the beans to be very soft, pressurise it first separately for 2-3 whistles and add. :- It is safer to add salt at the end to Olan because the volume shrinks after cooking and you can judge better.
- :- Olan is ready.
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