Kaalan for Kozhikode Sadya | Authentic Kerala Recipe

Ingredients for Kozhikode Kaalan:

1. Elephant yam, cut into small pieces after removing skin – 1 cup
   Raw banana split into two and chopped (after removing skin) – 1 cup
   Pepper powder – 3 small spoons
   Turmeric powder – 3 small spoons
   Salt – As required
2. Curd – 2 cups
3. Coconut scraped – 1.5 cups
   Green chillies – 4
   Cumin seeds – 2 small spoons
4. Fenugreek fried and powdered – 2 small spoons
5. Ghee – 1 big spoon
   Mustard – 1 big spoon
   Red chillies – 4 cut into pieces
   Curry leaves – A handful

How to prepare Kozhikode Kaalan?

1. Mix ingredients no: 1 together, add sufficient water, and cook well.
2. Add curd to cooked vegetables and boil well.
3. Make a fine paste of ingredients no: 3 and add to the curry.
4. When it’s done, take the curry from the flame, add fenugreek powder, and mix well.
5. Heat ghee in a pan, temper ingredients no: 6 and add to the curry.
6. Mix well and serve.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine September 1-14, 2016

You can also read a few more methods of preparing Kaalan, published in Vanitha.

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