Drumstick is the commonly used vegetable in south Indian cooking. Drumstick tree can be found in most of the south Indian homes. It is cooked solo or combo with other vegetables. Drumstick has a nice flavor and tastes better when cooked with spices.
Here is Spicy Drumstick Stir Fry (Murungakkai Masala) that can be served as side dish. It is delicious when mixed with steamed rice.
Drumstick is known as Murungakkai in Tamil. The photograph below right shows the drumstick tree of a south Indian home.
Ingredients
- Drumstick pieces – 15 no
- To grind
- Tomato – 1 no
- Onion chopped – 1 table spoon
- Red chilli powder – 1 table spoon
- Coriander powder – 1 table spoon
- Turmeric powder – ½ tea spoon
- Coconut grated – 2 table spoon
- Fennel seed – ½ tea spoon
- Garlic – 2 clove
- Clove – 2 no
- Ginger – small piece
- Coriander leaves – few strings
- Cinnamon – small piece
- Salt – as per taste
- For seasoning
- Mustard – ½ tea spoon
- Urad dal – ½ tea spoon
- Curry leaves – few
- Oil – 1 table spoon
Method
- Half-cook washed and cut drumstick pieces with little salt and turmeric powder in boiling water.
- Grind all ingredients given for grinding to a smooth paste in two stages as shown.
- Do seasoning, add the ground masala paste and fry for few seconds.
- Add little water, boil and add half boiled drumstick pieces; cook in low flame till the masala is roasted and drumstick is cooked fully.
- Serve with rice or chappati.
- Here is a split open drumstick piece (most of the people who is not aware of drumstick simply treat this as waste when served; the fleshy part inside the split drumstick including the tender seeds taste nice).
Tips
- I normally cut drumsticks into approximately 2 inch long pieces.
- While cutting into pieces, I remove the skin that peels off freely. This helps to cook drumstick faster.
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very delicious, i usually put this in sambhar but this looks too good
My mom used to prepare it but bit differently…Looks very nice as usual
I prepare almost the same but i used to add few brinjals along with the drumsticks…looks yummmyy!
masala looks very tasty, Nice recipe
yummy recipe…have posted a similar recipe long back
Looks spicy fry.
Kamala,
Murungakkai masala looks really nice, i miss them here.