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Kovakkai Raita | Tindora raita

Kovakkai Raita | Tindora raita
Cook Time5 minutes
Total Time5 minutes
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: Indian, Kerala cuisine
Author: Jinoo Jayakrishnan
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Ingredients

  • 5-6 medium ivy gourd/tindora/kovakkai - grated
  • 3/4 cup curd
  • 4 nos shallots - chopped finely
  • 1/2 no green chilli - chopped very finely
  • 1/4 tsp sugar
  • salt to taste

seasoning

  • 1 tsp oil
  • 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
  • 1 spring curry leaves

Instructions

  • Grate the Tindora after trimming off both the ends. 
  • Take 3/4 cup Curd in a bowl and add the grated ivy gourd in it. approximately measures to 3 tbsp
  • Add shallots 4 nos finely chopped
  • Put in half a green chilly very finely chopped.
  • Add sugar 1/4 tsp.
  • Add salt to it per taste
  • Mix it well.
  • Heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds.
  • drop a spring of curry leaves in it
  • Add this seasoning mixture to the raita