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Mullangi Poriyal in Tamil | முள்ளங்கி பொரியல்
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South Indian poriyal are simple yet flavorful. Radish Poriyal is really a great way to include the vegetable in lunch and easy to prepare too.
🛒 Ingredients
4, small sized Radish/ mullangi
¼ cup coconut grated
Salt
To temper
2 teaspoon Oil
½ teaspoon mustard
1 teaspoon urad dal
4 green chilli slit
1 sprig Curry leaves
📝 Instructions
Peel the skin off and grate mullangi using julienne grater or a large eyed grater. Mix with salt and keep aside for 10 mins.
Heat a kadai/ pan with oil. Splutter mustard, add urad dal. Once dal is golden, add green chilli, curry leaves.Mix the grated radish again to bring out excess water. Squeeze it out. Add the radish to kadai.
Cook well for 2 minutes in medium flame. Take care not to change colour. Level the radish inside kadai by gently patting and cook covered for 4 minutes. Stir in-between once. Once the radish is soft to press, it means cooked.
Add grated coconut and mix well for a minute. Ready!
📋Top tips
Take care not to change the colour, always cook in medium flame.
Use up the drained water from radish while cooking.
The point in draining the excess water is wilting it so that it gets cooked easily and you have control over texture of the radish. Also less pungent smell of radish.