Kitchen-Kollections

Celery is actually a salad dish..can be eaten raw with hummus or just boil it and make a soup out of it…I never ever thought there would be a curry out of CELERY!!!
Kudos to crazy curry

I had bought two bunches of celery..and i generally make delicious creamy soups out of it. This time I thought of making curry with the help of Crazy curry. I modified the recipe a bit..because I misread some of the instructions given….I cooked instead of roasting it…so i will try roasting the veggies..

here is the simple recipe

Ingredients
2 cups chopped celery (4 stalks)
1 tomato chopped
1 cup chopped onion
2 green chillies
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
1/4 cup coconut
1/2 cup beaten curd
2 tsp tamarind juice
1/2 tsp crushed jaggery
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
a pinch of turmeric
Salt to taste

For tempering
1 tsp chana dal
1 tsp urad dal
1 tsp jeera
1 tsp mustard seeds

Method 

• Take a deep pan and add 1 tbs of vegetable oil and fry red chillies, onions, green chillies, tomatoes and coconut. Fry for 5 minutes and take it off the stove. Cool it and grind it into a paste
• Now take another pan, add oil and add all the tempering ingredients – urad dal, chana dal, jeera, mustard seeds. Add chopped celery,turmeric and salt. Fry for 2 minutes and then add 3 tbs of water. Mix it well and cover it with a lid so that it cooks properly. This would take about 10-15 minutes. You dont want half cooked celery right!!! Cooked celery smells AMAZING!!!
• Add the paste into the cooked celery and mix it well. Add red chilli powder and again cook for 5 more minutes so that celery becomes juicy!!
• Add tamarind juice and let it cook for 2 more minutes. Take it off the stove and add the curd. The reason why I added curd was because the whole curry was really spicy. So if want spicy then dont add curd. But it reallllly tastes awesome with curd. Garnish it with chopped coriandar.

Serve hot with either rice or chapatis!!! It can be eaten with pita bread or dinner rolls tooo!