Celery Payaru Thoran

Description

 * Ethnicity - South Indian
 * Type of meal - Party, Lunch, Dinner

Ingredients

 * 6- 8 sticks: celery chopped
 * 1/2 cup: Green moon (cherupayar) cooked to 3/4th
 * 3/4 cup: grated coconut
 * 1 no: Small Onion, chopped
 * 2 cloves: garlic
 * 1 small piece: ginger cut into julian strips
 * 6 no: Green chillies chopped (can alter based on taste)
 * 2-3 no: Dried red chillies
 * 1 stick: curry leaves
 * 1 tsp: mustard
 * 1/2 tsp: cumin
 * 1 tbsp: oil

Directions

 * 1) Heat oil in a pan
 * 2) Add mustard to it and let it splutter
 * 3) Just pound the garlic and cumin together and add it to the oil and fry it for few seconds.
 * 4) Add ginger, chopped onions, green chillies, curry leaves, red chillies and fry it for a minute.
 * 5) Add the celery and coconut and cook it till the celery is half cooked.
 * 6) Add the cooked cherupayar and cook it covered for some more until everything is evenly cooked.
 * 7) Add salt to taste