How to Fall At Home Yam and Colacasia Curry

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Yam and Colacasia Curry. Kerala Style Taro Root Curry uses Arbi  which is widely used across India in various ways. This Kerala style Taro Root curry is made using fresh coconut and is classically served with steamed rice. Malabar tamarind is traditionally used as a souring agent, which also helps in destroying the allergens, if any, from the starchy tuber.

We do prepare chutney, saasive (Curry using mustard seeds) and curry.

Erissery - It's a traditional Kerala dish prepared either as a medium thick curry or as a thick side dish.

Erisseri can be prepared with any of the vegetables like Yam, Colocasia, Raw jack fruit, Pumkin, Raw banana, Papaya and with or with out adding pulses like green gram or kidney beans.

You can cook Yam and Colacasia Curry using 23 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Yam and Colacasia Curry

1. You need 1 1/2 cup of Yam cut into cubes.

2. It’s 1 1/2 cup of Colacasia cut into pieces.

3. Prepare 1/2 cup of potato cut into cubes.

4. It’s 1 tsp of ginger-garlic paste.

5. Prepare 1 of small tomato (cut into small pieces).

6. Prepare 1 of medium onion (coarsely blended).

7. It’s 2 tsp of Curry leaves.

8. It’s 1 of Cardamom.

9. Prepare 1 of clove.

10. It’s 1 of dalchini/ cinnamon stick.

11. You need 1 of dried red chilli.

12. Prepare 1 of bay leaf.

13. You need 1 tsp of coriander-cumin powder.

14. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Turmeric powder.

15. You need 1/2 tsp of Kashmiri red chilli powder.

16. You need 1/2 tsp of garam masala powder.

17. It’s to taste of Salt.

18. Prepare 1/2 tsp of sugar.

19. Prepare 1 tsp of Coriander leaves for garnishing.

20. Prepare 1/2 tsp of whole jeera/cumin seeds.

21. It’s 1 pinch of hing/ asafoetida.

22. It’s 2 of slit green chillies.

23. Prepare As needed of Oil.

The leaves are large, heart shape resembles elephant ears, triangular ovate, upper surface is dark green and light green beneath.

Distribution Colocasia esculent Linn. is native to South-east Asia and India.

Add the cooked cow peas and the ground paste to the yam and cook for few more minutes until the raw smell of the paste goes.

In its stead, colocasia was always the go-to vegetable in homes.

Yam and Colacasia Curry step by step

1. Pressure cook yam, colocasia and potato pieces together in a medium flame upto 5 whistles..

2. Now heat a kadai or pan. Add 5 tsp oil to it. Now add jeera & all khada garam masalas with dried red chilli & bay leaf. Add few curry leaves. Now add a pinch of hing to it..

3. Now add onion, tomato, ginger-garlic paste, salt, turmeric powder, coriander-cumin powder, garam masala powder, sugar, green chillies, Kashmiri red chilli powder. Mix everything well and cook it in a low flame until oil starts releasing the pan..

4. Now add the boiled yam & colocasia to it. Add desired quantity of water, salt and turmeric to it, cover it and let it simmer in a low flame for about 8 to 10 mins. Finally garnish it with some coriander leaves. You can serve it with steamed rice or roti…

The aloo-meat curry, one of the most basic ways of combining goat meat and potatoes in a spicy thin gravy in northern India may be deemed "home-style" today, but it was quite likely to have been preceded by arbi-meat curry as the original protein-starch combination.

Fried colocasia fingers make for an interesting textural.

Dahi Ki arbi -Tangy colocasia /taro root curry cooked with curd and Indian spices.

Dahi Ki arbi-During summers we wish to eat something light and cool.,so I often make curries in which curd can be added.

Taro root /arbi /colacasia is such a vegetable which can be cooked in a delicious curd gravy.