Papaya Pulisseri

                                          (After Garnishing)

                                            (Before Garnishing)

Pulissery is a favorite curry that people of Kerala use to pour on rice. You can make plain pulissery or make it more yummy by adding either ripe papaya or ripe mangoes. By adding papaya, you can make it different from the usual pulissery.

My backyard has a papaya tree from which we get surplus supply of papayas every day. actually eating too much of papaya made our appetite for papaya decrease a lot. I usually like to pluck raw papayas and make thoran, a vegetable side dish or try out pulissery made out of papayas.

Ingredients

·         Papaya cubes – 1 cup (cut into small cubes)

·         Coconut scrapings – 1 cup

·         Shallots -  6 nos + 3 nos (For Garnishing)

·         Green chilly- 2 small

·         Garlic – 2 cloves

·         Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp

·         Cumin seed powder- a pinch

·         Dried chillies – 2 or 3 (For Garnishing)

·         Curry leaves

·         Coconut oil

Method

·         Take a pan, add papaya pieces, two slit chillies and some salt

·         Pour a cup of water to it and switch on the stove

·         When the water starts boiling, close the pan with a lid and let it cook for 5 min

·         In a mixer jar, add coconut gratings, shallots, turmeric powder, garlic cloves and cumin seeds powder

·         Run the mixer and add some curd instead of water to grind the coconut mix well

·         Keep it aside

·         When the papaya pieces in the pan are cooked, add the coconut mix to it and simmer the flame

·         Check salt and add if necessary

·         DO NOT BOIL THE PULISSERY

·         Switch off the flame after 1 min

·         In a small pan, add some oil and add mustard seeds and pop them

·         Add the shallots that are cut into small pieces into the pan and fry till light brown

·         Now add the curry leaves and switch off the flame

·         Add the hot oil meant for garnishing into the pulissery

·         Serve with rice and other vegetarian kerala dishes