CELERY PAYARU THORAN RECIPE

Ingredients:

6-8 sticks Celery chopped
1/2 cup Green moon (cherupayar) cooked to 3/4th
3/4 cup Grated coconut
1/4 Chopped onion
6-7 Green chillies chopped
2-3 Dried red chillies
Curry leaves
2 cloves Garlic
1 small piece Ginger cut into julian strips
1 tsp Mustard
1/2 tsp Cumin
1 tblsp Oil

How to make celery payaru thoran:

• Grind the garlic and cumin together coarsely into a thick paste and keep it aside.
• Heat oil in a pan, add mustard to it and let it splutter
• Add to it the garlic paste and fry it for few seconds.
• Put ginger, chopped onions, green chillies, curry leaves, red chillies and fry it.
• Add the celery and coconut and cook it till the celery is half cooked.
• Add the cooked cherupayar and simmer it for some time on low heat till everything is cooked.
• Add salt to taste .
• Serve hot.