Nookol Poriyal / Kohlrabi Fry

Happy to share this healthy recipe with you!

Nookol poriyal tatses great with chapatti! If it’s hard to make your kids eat veggies you can stuff this poriyal in the chapatti and serve! It tastes great that way too. Nookol is  rich in vitamins and dietary fiber. Do try this recipe. Happy Cooking! Cheers!

Ingredients:

Nookol – 3 medium size

Onion – Finely chopped 1 Big onion or 20 small onions

Green chilli – 2

Coconut – ¼ cup shredded

Chutney dal powder – 1 tbsp

Mustard – ½ tsp

Jeera – ½ tsp

Broken urad dhal- ½ tsp

Channa dal/Kadalai paruppu – 1 tsp

Curry leaf – few

Oil – 1 tbsp

Method:

1. Scrape the nookol in a scraper.Meanwhile heat a pan. To the hot pan add oil. When it’s hot add mustard, Broken urad dhal, Jeera, Kadalai paruppu one by one.(After one item splutters add the next!)

2. Slit the green chilies and add them. Now add the nookol and curry leafs. Gently mix. And close the pan. It took 8-9 mins to cook. In between open the pan and gently mix, this helps even cooking. No water is needed as the nookol gets cooked in it’s own water content

3. When the vegetable is cooked add chutney dal/ pottu kadalai powder & coconut, gently mix and switch off the pan

 

Serving Tips:

1.This dish goes great with chapathi

 2.Nookol poriyal can be served as a side dish for meals