Kalan

This is a kerala recipe that my mother in law sent me. I tried it out the other day and it came out pretty ok.

Ingredients:

1. 1 large raw banana or 2 small raw bananas
2. 1/2 shredded coconut ( can get the frozen shredded coconut which would be around 1 cup coconut)
3. Yam or cucumber (optional) apparently kalan can be made only with raw banana or cucumber or yam or a mixture of these 3
4. 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
5. Salt to taste
6. 1/2 tsp chilli powder
7. 2 green chillies
8. 1/4 tsp jeera
9. 2 cups sour curd.
10. 1 tsp oil
11. 4 curry leaves
12. 1/2 tsp mustard seeds

Method:

1. Cut the banana, yam and cucumber into small 1 inch square pieces. Boil these in 1 cup water along with the salt, turmeric powder and red chilli powder until soft. In the pressure cooker it requires 1 to 2 whistles.
2. Grind the coconut along with 2 green chillies and jeera
3. Make a puree of the curd
4. Add the curd to the boiled vegetables and boil until the mixture thickens (reduces to at least 3/4 the earlier level)
5. Add the ground coconut mixture and heat for 2 minutes.
6. Heat oil, add mustard seeds and curry leaves and let the mustard seeds splutter. Add this to the vegetable mixture.

Serve hot with rice