Celery Payaru Thoran

Ingredients

• - 6- 8 sticks: Celery chopped
• - 1/2 cup: Green moon (cherupayar) cooked to 3/4th
• - 3/4 cup: Grated coconut
• - 1/4 : Chopped onion
• - 2 cloves: Garlic
• - 1 small piece: Ginger cut into julian strips
• - 6-7: Green chillies chopped (can alter based on taste)
• - 2-3: Dried red chillies
• - 1 stick: Curry leaves
• - 1 tsp: Mustard
• - 1/2 tsp: Cumin
• - 1 tbsp: Oil

Method

• - Heat oil in a pan
• - Add mustard to it and let it splutter
• - Just pound the garlic and cumin together and add it to the oil and fry it for few seconds.
• - Add ginger, chopped onions, green chillies, curry leaves, red chillies and fry it for a minute.
• - Add the celery and coconut and cook it till the celery is half cooked.
• - Add the cooked cherupayar and cook it covered for some more until everything is evenly cooked.
• - Add salt to taste