How to make Kaalan -
A Kerala speciality - Raw bananas cooked with ground coconut and yogurt and tempered .an interesting South Indian recipe, Kaalan is a dish made with banana, yoghurt and coconut.
This recipe has featured on the show Khanakhazana.
Main Ingredients : Raw banana (कच्चा केला), Coconut (नारियल)
Cuisine : Tamil Nadu
Course : Main Course Vegetarian
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Kaalan Recipe Card
The highly developed and sensitive palates of the Tamilians are well chronicled in the Sangam classics. They believe that food should ideally cater to all the six tastes - bitter, pungent, sweet, salty, sour and astringent.
Tamil Nadu has a wide variety of delicious food both for the vegetarians as well as the non-vegetarians, though most of it is made of grains, lentils, rice and vegetables. Spices are added to give a distinctive taste. Rice has been the staple diet of the Tamilians, an inculcated habit, due to the large-scale cultivation of the crop in the state.
Chettinad cuisine, a speciality in Tamil Nadu, is famous for its hot and spicy non-vegetarian food. A part of the Mudaliar community is non-vegetarians and its cuisine is delightfully spicy without being too hot. Wet masalas are generally used, the main ingredients being fresh coconut paste and ground ginger-garlic.
Prep Time : 11-15 minutes
Cook time : 26-30 minutes
Serve : 4
Level Of Cooking : Moderate
Taste : Spicy
Ingredients for Kaalan Recipe
Raw banana 4 medium
Coconut scraped 3/4 cup
Salt to taste
Green chillies slit 2
Red chilli powder 1/2 teaspoon
Turmeric powder 1/4 teaspoon
Cumin seeds 1/2 teaspoon
Yogurt 1 cup
Oil 4 tablespoons
Mustard seeds 1 teaspoon
Fenugreek seeds (methi dana) 1/2 teaspoon
Whole dry red chillies halved 2
Curry leaves 10
Method
Step 1
Peel the bananas. Halve them lengthwise and cut into small pieces. Take two cups of water in a pan. Add salt, green chillies, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and raw banana pieces. Bring it to a boil.
Step 2
Reduce heat, cover and cook. Grind together coconut, cumin seeds with a little water to a fine paste. Whisk yogurt. When the bananas are tender, add the ground paste and mix lightly. Add yogurt and mix.
Step 3
Remove from heat and keep it covered. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, red chillies, curry leaves.
Step 4
Once the seeds crackle add the tempering to the bananas and keep it covered till you serve.
Nutrition Info
Calories : 422 Kcal
Carbohydrates : 33.45 gm
Protein : 5.425 gm
Fat : 29.7 gm
Other : 1.3
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