Cowpea or black-eyed pea is a popular grain among Sri Lankans. If you check Sri Lankan recipes for cowpea, you’ll find different ways to cook this protein packed legume in delicious and easy ways. Be it a healthy salad or a delicious finger licking curry, you will find an easy Sri Lankan recipe to try with cowpeas.
Previously I shared a cowpea curry recipe and a cowpea salad recipe. For the previous cowpea curry (Kawpi curry), I used tomato and other spices as main ingredients and that was delicious too with aromas of all spices.
Today it is another cowpea curry recipe which I cooked in Sri Lankan style. For this curry, I used toasted coconut and spices to get a bit different taste. This experiment in my Sri Lankan kitchen was successful and we had a delicious cowpea curry with thick gravy.
I used red chili powder for the curry, but if you want a bit more spicy curry, add some green chili too. Toasted coconut makes this curry thick which is also good with roti or bread.
If you like to try different curry recipes, try this cowpea recipe with some fresh grated coconut.
Sri Lankan Cowpea Curry with Coconut Paste
Ingredients (for 2-3 servings)
Cowpea 1 cup (soaked in water for at least 4-5 hours)
½ medium sized onion
1 sprig Curry leaves
1/2 cup fresh grated coconut
2 tspn red chili powder
1 tspn raw curry powder
½ tspn turmeric powder
¼ tspn fenugreek seeds
Piece of cinnamon
½ cup of thick coconut milk
Salt to taste
Method
First cook soaked cowpea well and it should be easily mashed.
Drain water & keep aside.
Toast fresh coconut till golden brown. Also dry roast the spices and chili powder. Grind roasted spices, chili and toasted coconut in to a fine paste.
In a cooking pot, add cooked cowpea, onion, curry leaves and the coconut paste. Add cinnamon piece too. Add coconut milk to this and mix well.
Then simmer in low heat till all mix well and oil separates.
Adjust salt as per taste.
Remove from heat and serve with plain rice.
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8 comments
What a lovely recipe ! “Healthy” and “delicious” in my favorite thick coconut milk…
Thanks for sharing this recipe.
Black eyed pea are one of my favorites! Curry looks delicious with coconut sauce. YUUMY!
Lovely with the essential must have coconut milk for lankan dishes.
Hi Amila, this black eyes pea curry look delicious. Love to have extra rice to mop up all the gravy. :)))
Thanks for sharing your recipe.
Have a great weekend, regards.
Amelia
This bean is one of our favourites at home…will try your version next time:)…Looks delicious and inviting:)
In love with the post, very entertaining.
New post!
My ammi makes cowpea curry with coconut milk. But she has never made it with coconut paste. Will make it for sure your way, next time! 🙂 Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Try this.It came out delicious and this is one of my experiments in the kitchen… 🙂