Guide to Prepare Chayote squash/chow chow poriyal

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, chayote squash/chow chow poriyal. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chow chow poriyal recipe is a simple and easy South Indian style chayote squash side dish. This recipe has chow chow flavored with coconut and Apart from chow chow poriyal, another dish that I equally like is chow chow kootu. As for health benefits, chow chow is low in calories and is a good.

Chayote squash/chow chow poriyal is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Chayote squash/chow chow poriyal is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

Recipe of Chayote squash/chow chow poriyal

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chayote squash/chow chow poriyal using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Chayote squash/chow chow poriyal:

1. Make ready 1 chayote squash
2. Get 1 onion
3. Get 3 green chillies
4. Make ready 2 red chillies
5. Make ready 3 tablespoons moong dal soaked
6. Make ready 2 tablespoons Grated coconut
7. Make ready 1 teaspoon mustard
8. Prepare leaves Curry
9. Make ready As required Salt

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. Chayote Squash or in tamil we call it as Chow Chow is a very healthy veggie. It is one veggie less in calories and also rich in vitamin.

Instructions

Steps to make Chayote squash/chow chow poriyal:

1. Cut the chayote squash into cubes and chop the onions into bite sized.Make sure the moongdal is soaked for around 15 minutes and drained.
2. In a pan add oil and mustard,once crackled add curry leaves.After add the chillies and wait for them to crackle.
3. Add in the onions and wait for them to turn translucent.
4. Add in the chopped chayote squash and required salt.cover and cook for 5 minutes.
5. After 5 minutes once the squash is half cooked add in the soaked moong dal, cover and cook for another 10 minutes.
6. Once cooked add in the grated coconut, stir and switch off the stove.
7. It’s done!

I have enriched the poriyal by adding onions and capsicum and also dry grinding raosted gram dal along with coconut. We can make plain stir-fry also, but the onions and. These days the hot summer makes me crave for cooling fruits and vegetables. If you have been following me you will know that I love to cook with seasonal produce. Chow Chow or Chayote squash is a well known and very common vegetable used in the famous South Indian Kootu.

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