Carrot Poriyal

Hi friends,
           You don't need  me to tell you the benefits of carrots. But still we don't cosume a lot of carrot. I think this is because some of us may not enjoy the sweet taste of carrots.For persons with such taste,should try this recipe .

Ingredients:

• 1/4 kg of carrot
• 4 tsp of cookong oil
• 1/4 tsp of mustard seed
• 1/4 tsp of split black gram
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 2 onions (medium size)
• 1 tsp of red chilly powder
• 1 tsp of coriander powder
• A pinch of turmeric powder
• Scrapped coconut
• curry leaves
• salt

Method:

• Wash and chop the carrots and set aside.
• Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seed and split black gram and wait till it crackles.
• Fry the crushed garlic in it to golden brown.
• Add the chopped onions and saute it till it becomes soft.
• Add curry leaves.

• Now add the chopped carrots, adequate water, red chilly powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and salt.
• Cover the pan and cook them in  a slow flame till the carrots become soft.That is till the water dries.

• Add the scrapped coconuts and saute it for a minute.
• Remove from heat and the carrot poriyal is ready now.

Goes well with:

• Its the best side dish for all rice with gravy and also it goes well with all variety rice like

coconut rice,tomato rice,puliyodharai andlemon-rice.