Onam Vibhavangal-Olan
Olan is a specil dish which is not very spicy but really tasty,and an invitable part of onam lunch.Preparation is easy.We can cook olan pane with ash gourd or kumbalanga or add a few more vegetables to make it more thicker and nutritious. I have tried adding a few vegetables with ash gourd and kidneybeans and it was really wonderful..
Ingredients
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1 cup kidney beans d. (Van- payar)cooke
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1/2 cup Ash gourd (kumbalanga)sliced to thin pieces-length one inch
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1/2 cup pumpkin pieces
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1/2 cup brinjal colocasia or (optional)
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3 nos green chillies
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3 sprigs curry leaves
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1 cup coconut grated
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2 tbsps coconut oil
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salt -to taste
Cooking Instructions
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1
The vegetables cleaned and cut to uniform size of one inch length are cooked soft adding 2 cups of water, 3 green chillies and half tsp of salt.
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Crush the grated coconut adding one cup of water and extract the coconut milk. Add the coconut milk,curry leaves and the cooked kidney beans to the above cooked vegetables before taking out from the fire,stirring continuousy
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3
Take out from fire just before the coconut milk starts boiling.
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4
Add coconut oil and more salt if required.Delicious "OLAN' is ready
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5
Hint:Those who want to avoid coconut milk can add dairy milk or milk cream
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