Celery Payaru Thoran

Description

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

Ingredients

 * 6 – 8 sticks celery chopped
 * ½ cup green moong (cherupayar) cooked to ¾ th
 * ¾ cup grated coconut
 * 1 small onion, chopped
 * 2 cloves garlic
 * 1 small piece ginger cut into julienne strips
 * 6 green chillies chopped (can alter based on taste)
 * 2 – 3 dried red chillies
 * 1 stick curry leaves
 * 1 tsp mustard
 * ½ 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.