Recipe: Eating on a Dime Chayote/ chow chow fry

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Recipe: Eating on a Dime Chayote/ chow chow fry Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Chayote/ chow chow fry. Chayote, known as chow chow in tamil is usually made as a kootu in any South Indian household. I make this Chow Chow Fry quite often than kootu. This fry goes well with roti and rice.

These basic ingredients bring out the flavors and textures of the squash, making them nutritious and delicious.

How to make Caribbean plantain chow chow curry.

Heat the coconut oil in a frying pan and fry the mustard seeds, with the onion and split peas until the seeds begin to crackle on medium heat and the split peas/onion turn golden.

You can cook Chayote/ chow chow fry using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chayote/ chow chow fry

  1. It’s 1 of chow chow.

  2. Prepare 2 of green chillies.

  3. You need 1/2 of onion.

  4. Prepare 2 of garlic cloves.

  5. You need 2 tablespoons of oil.

  6. It’s 1/2 tablespoons of mustard seeds.

  7. It’s 1/2 tablespoons of urad dhal.

  8. It’s 3 spoons of soaked channa dhal.

  9. It’s 1/2 cup of grated coconut.

Chow chow poriyal, how to cook chayote squash fry at home.

Chow chow or chayote squash is also known as Bangalore kathirikkai locally.

Usually we get quite bigger size chow chow in the market which I don't buy often.

We use chow chow to prepare kootu, mor Kuzhambu and coconut based curries. wow looks gud but donno what is chayote.

Chayote/ chow chow fry step by step

  1. Take a pan and add oil, mustard seeds and urad dhal, then add chana dhal. Add onions and garlic cloves, green chillies finely chopped. Fry it till its cooked..

  2. You can pressure cook the chopped chow chow for 2 whistles or boil in a pan separately for 15 min. Add the boiled chow chow to the mix, said in step 1. Cook for 5 min in medium flame. Then add grated coconut..

  3. Cook it in medium flame for 2 more minutes. Now its ready to serve. You can have this with rice, chapati, roti..

The stir fry looks very tempting.

Delicious looking curry, sounds so tasty.

Chow Chow or Chayote Squash is one of the healthy vegetable with less calories.

We usually make stew using this vegetable, but we can also make healthy and tasty poriyal.

In this recipe, I have enriched the poriyal by adding onions, capsicum and coconut.