Jan 9, 2008

Koorkka with meat

You can cook koorkka with any meat as a dry dish or as gravy. Koorkka has a unique taste somewhere between potato and yam. It gives the meat a different flavor altogether when cooked with it.

1 pound meat (beef, pork or any hard meat) diced.
3 table spoon meat masala
1 onion diced
1 tomato diced
8 garlic pods ad 2 inch ginger crushed
1 spring of curry leaves
2 tsp chili powder
5 green chilies slit
1 tsp turmeric
Salt as needed.

Mix all these with the meat and cook thoroughly with ¼ cup water in a pressure
cooker.

Now sauté half a diced onion, add the boiled koorkka and the meat and keep in low flame until koorkka soaks the gravy.

If you want you can add 1 cup of coconut milk. Do not boil.

OR

Roast ¼ cup of coconut and when almost brown add1 tsp meat masala and sauté for one more minute. Grind this to a fine paste, sauté it after the onion and later add koorkka and the cooked meat. Boil in low flame until done.

Serve with rice or roti. Yummy!

7 comments:

Pravs said...

Love koorkka. Cooked with meat, it must be super delicious !

Rachel said...

I have had fried/boiled koorkaa but never this combo..looks yummy!

Ravi said...

inji pennu, in your prev post, you had mentioned that koorkka takes longer time. Are you sure? because every time I cook this vegie, I used to wash the chunks thoroughly (to remove the sand sticking onto them), boil in a vessel with water over stove. They get tender in a matter of 10-15 mins. Then all I do is make a vertical slit with a knife and the skins peel out easily. Then saute in oil with salt, chilli powder, etc. until crispy.

Mrs. K said...

koorkka penney...ingane manushyane kothippikkunna karyangal mathrame blog cheyyavullootto.. koorkka kandittu varshangalaayi...dushte!

Anonymous said...

wahhh..

enthu nalla curry..looks yummy..koorkkayokkey evide kittan..

Inji Pennu said...

ravi,
Depends on the koorkka I guess. Mine takes a little longer time. Anyway the mention is cook until done:)

Bharathy said...

BTW,Koorka is known as SIRUKIZHANGU, in the place we live here in Tamil NAdu and we get rarelyduring the peak season..Nov-jan!