Vanpayar ularthiyathu/Cowpea fry

                      Vanpayar ularthiyathu/Cowpea fry

   A healthy side dish!Cow peas are good source of protein and have low fat content too.It is a tasty dish and if you need traditional taste try to use coconut oil.Do you want to check my vanpayar thoran/cowpea stir fry recipe?

Ingredients:

• Cowpea/vanpayar:1 cup
• Shallots/kunjulli:10
• Dry red chilly:5
• Coconut slices:1/4 cup
• Mustard/kaduku:1/4 tspn
• Curry leaves
• Salt
• Oil

Method:

• Soak cowpea over night.
• Pressure cook it for one whistle with salt
• Drain excess water.
• Crush both dry red chilly and shallots together.Keep it aside
• Heat the pan with oil.
• Add mustard and let it splutter.
• Add curry leaves and sliced coconut.
• Add crushed onion and dry red chilly.
• Stir it well.
• Add cooked cowpea and fry it well.
• It is a goos side dish for kanji(porridge) as well as rice.