Padavalakai palya recipe | How to make snake gourd stir fry | Patlakai palya
By Latha on February 23rd, 2018
Padavalakai palya or snake gourd stir fry recipe explained with step by step pictures. Padavalakai palya or snake gourd stir fry is prepared using snake gourd, coconut, red chili, jaggery, salt and cumin seeds. Padavalakai palya or curry goes very well with rice or chapathi.
I have posted one more Padavalakai kalasu or jeerige kootu recipe on this website. It has a sweetish gravy and very tasty. Kindly have a look. Generally in snakegourd recipes coconut and cumin seeds masala is used. I really don't know the reason behind it.
When I was young, my parents used to grow this. And we call it by name patlakai. Like any other vegetable, snake gourd has numerous health benefits. Snake gourd detoxifies the body, improves digestion, strengthens the immune system, improves strength and quality of the hair and aid in weight loss. It is also helpful to treat diabetes.
You can find many palya or stir fry recipes on this website like sweet potato palya, pumpkin palya, bendekayi or ladies finger palya, bittergourd sweet curry, thondekai palya, Mixed vegetable palya, beans palya, badanekayi palya, Hagalakayi palya, Boodu kumbalakai or ash gourd palya and north karnataka special zunka vadi recipes.
Or if you are looking for more Karnataka style curry recipes then do visit our curries section.
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 20 min
Serves: 4
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1 medium sized padavalakai or snake gourd
- 1 tsp urad dal
- 1 tsp gram dal or chana dal
- 4 - 6 tsp cooking oil
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 red chili (optional)
- A big pinch of turmeric powder
- A big pinch of asafoetida
- 4-5 curry leaves
- 1 small gooseberry sized jaggery
- Salt as per your taste
- Water as required
Ingredients for grinding:
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 - 2 red chili
- 1/2 cup grated coconut
Instructions for making padavalakai palya or snake gourd stir fry:
- Scrape lightly, wash and chop the snake gourd into small pieces.
- Next take oil in a frying pan and heat it. Add in 1/2 tsp mustard seeds, 1 tsp urad dal and 1 tsp chana dal.
- When the mustard seeds splutters and urad dal turns brown, add in broken red chili and curry leaves. Also add in turmeric powder and asafoetida.
- Add in chopped snake gourd and give a quick mix.
- Add in salt and jaggery. Give a quick mix.
- Add little water, bring it to boil and close the lid.
- Stir in between and cook until soft under low flame.
- Meantime dry grind the grated coconut, red chilies and 1/2 tsp of cumin seeds using a small mixie jar.
- Wait until snake gourd is cooked. Add in ground coconut, red chili and cumin seeds masala.
- Give a quick mix. Switch off the stove and serve it with hot steaming rice or chapathi.
Dear Reader,
I am Latha and I am very happy that you have visited our website. Lot of efforts have been put in creating each and every page on this website. If you like this recipe, kindly share it with your friends by clicking on the icons given below. Feel free to write to me at "kannadavegrecipes@gmail.com". Thank you so much and keep visiting!!