This recipe of chayote yogurt curry embodies richness of fresh coconut, creamy yogurt and doesn’t involve too many spices and preparations which is why I always love making this curry. And it wouldn’t be fair if I don’t even speak about Chayote, a lovely green colored veggie which needs scraping to peel it off. Yes it’s outer skin is so uneven that you cannot remove the skin off using a peeler.
But one thing to admire about chayote is: it gets cooked very fast to tender, soft chunks. So you cannot make it sit on stove for long as you are held up with another parallel cooking. And obviously I am obsessed to use chayote in curry and it’s skin in making chayote peel chutney whenever possible as it reduces my cooking time considerably.
Chayote yogurt curry is chunks of cooked chayote in coconut plus green chilly puree. As you put the chayote pieces to cook in water topped with turmeric powder, you can directly head on to get ready with coconut puree. Fresh coconut, green chillies and little raw rice is ground to fine puree to get combined with chayote. Let it get going till boiling stage then you have to help it with whisked fresh yogurt.
Final but not an optional step is tempering chayote yogurt curry with an aromatic cumin+fenugreek flavored seasoning. When you finish the curry with this wonderful seasoning it’s the aroma that drags you to the dining table.
Chayote Yogurt Curry | Seeme Badane Majjige Huli
Ingredients
- Chayote medium sized - 2 no.
- Fresh grated coconut- 1 cup
- Greed chillies- 3 nos.
- Salt- 1 to 1.5 tsp
- Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp
- Raw rice- 1 tsp
- Whisked fresh curd- 1.5 cup
Seasoning ingredients
- Ghee- 2 tsp
- Cumin seeds- 1 tsp
- Fenugreek seeds- 1/2 tsp
- Curry leaves- Few
Instructions
Preparation
- Peel off the chayote using a peeler and chop it in to medium sized chunks.
Method
- Cook the chayote chunks with a cup of water and turmeric powder until the pieces turn tender and soft. Mean while in a mixer add grated coconut, raw rice, green chillies and grind them together to fine paste.
- When chayote pieces are soft enough, include the ground coconut paste and salt. Combine everything well and let it boil for a while.
- Finally add the whisked yogurt and stir. As the curry starts boiling, switch off the flame.
- Heat a seasoning pan add ghee, cumin, fenugreek and curry leaves in order. As the fenugreek seeds turn little brown, transfer it to yogurt curry.
- Very comforting chayote yogurt curry is ready to serve.
Notes
- Always use fresh curds and not sour one for this recipe.
- The purpose of raw rice is to thicken the curry, if you want you can skip it too.
- Do not over pour water to cook chayote pieces. As we are adding whisked yogurt at the end, the curry would turn too thin.
- Do not skip seasoning the yogurt curry with fenugreek and cumin seeds. This seasoning enhances the flavor of yogurt curry.
What is chayo? Is it seems badne kai in kannad
It is called “Seeme badane” in Kannada.