Saturday, June 4, 2011

Kovakkai(Tindora/Ivy Gourd) Pickle/Salad

Have you seen this small green colored, baby cucumber kind of vegetable before? If you haven't then when you get a chance to go to your nearest Asian Indian store check it out. I love the crunchiness of this vegetable and tastes great in stir fry and also as a salad/pickle. I am calling this as pickle because I added little bit more of red chili pepper and added coarsely ground fenugreek seeds. Which is normally done for a pickle. This not alone tastes great but Tindora is a very low GI vegetable and in alternate medicine the Doctors in fact recommend to include this vegetable more in the meals to lower diabetes.  So there is no reason not to try this and do let me know if you did.



Preparation Time - 15 Minutes

Cooking Time - 2 to 3 Minutes

Serves - 2 to 3





Ingredients



Finely chopped Tindora pieces - 3 Cups (Edges trimmed, washed and finely chopped)

Salt - 1 Tsp or to taste

Red chili pepper - 1 Tsp or to taste

Lemon juice - 1 Tbsp or to taste

Fenugreek seeds - 1 Tsp (Dry roast till slightly brown and grind it to a coarse powder)

Asafoetida powder - pinch (if you are gluten free, do not use this)

Turmeric powder - 1/2 Tsp



Sesame Oil - 1 Tbsp

Mustard seeds - 1/2 Tsp



Method



1) Combine the tindora pieces, salt, red chili powder, fenugreek powder, tumeric powder, asaofetida powder and set it aside.



2) Now heat a small pan and add the sesame oil. Once the oil is warm, add the mustard seeds. After the mustard seeds stop spluttering, transfer the tempering to the tindora and spice mix. Add the lemon juice and combine thoroughly.  Enjoy!!



Notes - You can prepare this and leave this for an hour or two for the spices and flavors to be well absorbed by the vegetable. If keeping more than a day, refrigerate.





23 comments:

Prabhamani said...

I do Poriyal with this...Pickle's new to me!!!Will try soon :)

sangee vijay said...

Tindora...I never tried before in any form...after seeing so many recipes from u people now it's time to buy n try recipes...coming to this pickle is very innovative n looks tempting..,bookmarked !!! Nice clicks...

Hari Chandana said...

Looks sooooooo tempting.. inviting click !!
Indian Cuisine

Prathibha said...

Loved the pickle version of tindora..looks yumm

Reva said...

Pickle with Tindora... this is indeed new to me.. But the green with the mix of spices looks awesome and very tempting..:)
Reva

Raji said...

This is a lovely kind of pickle...I can gobble this up with my rotis.

Food Glorious Food! said...

I love this little goodness too! Thanks for the simple but great tasting recipe!

One Healthy Cook said...

pickle looks ho so tempting..

Priya said...

Pickle looks irresistible, cant wait to try this..

Plateful said...

This looks so colorful, spicy and yummy!! Would love to sample it :)

Priti said...

Like your method and looks so gud

Prathima Rao said...

Simple to make & looks irresistible!!
Prathima Rao
Prats Corner

SravsCulinaryConcepts said...

pickle looks wonderful and delicious !!

Maria said...

Hmm I don't think I've ever tried this, but it sounds great, I'm very intrigued!

GEETHA ACHAL said...

sure want to try it...Bookmarked...

Priya Sreeram said...

too good ! loved the presentation

Sum said...

I too make this one.... almost the same way... love it!

Kalpana Sareesh said...

wow simpleee superrr

Sadhana Valentina said...

Have never tried tindora in this way...good one dear!!!

Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal said...

wow, so very new, looks and sounds delicious :)

Sowmya said...

That is one delicious pickle....love your treatment of the spices!

Vegetarian Cultural Creatives

Sensible Vegetarian said...

Thanks a lot every one for your sweet comments. Appreciate it.

Maayeka said...

too good .I love tindora...will surely try this

Post a Comment

Twitter Delicious Facebook Digg Stumbleupon Favorites More

 
Design by Free WordPress Themes | Bloggerized by Lasantha - Premium Blogger Themes | Facebook Themes