Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Servings: 2 Servings

Oil-free, it’s an easy way to cook vegetables with little or no oil. Steam grate/ mash and temper.

Podimas in Tamil means a mash or a crumble. Many vegetables can be converted into a podimas with minimum ingredients that enhance the natural flavor of the vegetable.

Ingredients

• Raw green Banana: 3 nos
• Coconut: 3 tbsp (grated)
• Lime Juice: 1 tbsp
• Rock Salt: to taste
• Mustard seeds: 1 tsp
• Curry leaves: 1 sprig
• Coriander leaves: 1 tbsp (chopped)
• Split Urad Dal: 1 tsp
• Green chilli: 2-3 (finely chopped)
• Cold pressed coconut oil: 1 tsp (optional)

Method

• Wash and steam the raw bananas with the skin until cooked.
• You can check if done by piercing a sharp knife through them. It would take around 12 minutes.
• Cool and peel the steamed bananas and grate them.
• Make a tempering of coconut oil, mustard seeds, urad dal, green chillies and curry leaves. Skip the oil if you wish to.
• Add the grated banana, grated coconut, lime juice and salt and stir well.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.

Eating Guide

• Food group, vegetables.
• This style of cooking helps to mask the original appearance of the vegetable for picky eaters.
• Tastes great eaten with rasam rice or sambar rice.

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