In Sri Lankan cuisine there are different vegetarian recipes cooked with a variety of vegetables.Drumstick or Murunga ia another popular vegetable which is mainly cooked as a curry.This Drumstick Curry with grated coconut is another such recipe which is cooked with a coconut paste to make the gravy a little bit thick.
Recipe: Drumstick Curry with Grated Coconut
Drumstick Curry (Murunga Curry) which I shared earlier is a simple Sri Lankan Curry recipe in thick coconut cream.In this recipe,I reduced the amount of thick coconut milk and instead added some thin grated coconut.Addition of grated coconut gave a rich and thick gravy which made this curry so special.
I hope you will enjoy this version of Drumstick curry (Murunga curry) in a Sri Lankan meal!
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Recipe: Drumstick Curry with Grated Coconut
Ingredients: (for 3-4 servings)
Drumstick (Murunga) 250g
2-3 green chili sliced lengthwise
½ medium sized onion sliced
1 sprig curry leaves
1inch piece pandan leaf/(rampa) –(optional)
¼ tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp curry powder
1 tsp fenugreek seeds
Piece of cinnamon
Salt to taste
1 cup thin coconut milk
1/2 cup thick coconut milk
3 tbspn fresh grated coconut
3 tbspn fresh grated coconut
¼ tspn of mustard seeds-grinded
Method
Wash & remove skin of drumsticks.
Cut it into pieces of about 3-4 inches.
Put drumsticks in a cooking pan & mix all other ingredients mentioned above.(other than thick coconut milk ,Grated coconut & grounded mustard)
Cook in low heat until drumsticks are cooked. Meanwhile,grind fresh coconut & mustard seeds into a thin paste.Once drumstick is cooked well,add thick coconut milk and stir well.
Then add the fresh coconut paste.
Then add the fresh coconut paste.
Adjust salt to taste.
Switch off the burner.
Switch off the burner.
Serve with rice & other curries.
Do you like Sri Lankan curries?How do you cook Murunga or drumstick?
14 comments
Yummy and delicious looking gravy.
srilankan cuisine seems so simlar to kerala cuisine… baring the pandan leaves, we make it exactly the same way… looks so yum…
I love drumstick personally! and this combination rocks 🙂
Feeling nostalgic …..makes me yummy and looks delicious!
Haven’t eaten drumsticks for a long time now, n that I realized when I read your recipe!!! Lovely one… Have to manage getting this super-like veggie 🙂
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yummy a favourite
Lovely colour of the gravy 🙂
Will try it for sure !!!
just like Rafeeda commented..our foods are soo very much the same..we too do it this way as well. How u doing dear ? You due ? thanks for dropping by..and take care.
It’s great to be back in this space! Thanks for coming by & congrats on your newborn!
Beautiful dish! Thanks for joining us at Marvelous Mondays, pinned to my MM board!
very delicious curry and a flavorful one !!
Sounds delicious with lots of coconut.
Thanks for sharing.
isn’t it called “Lady fingers curry”??? I think I’ve eaten it in the Hotel in Kandy and thought they called it that way. Anyhow: very delicious 🙂
This is not lady fingers curry.We call it as ‘Bandakka’ in Sri Lanka.I’ve shared a recipe for ladies fingers stir fry in this link,https://www.foodcnr.com/2011/07/okra-fry-ladies-fingersbandakka.html
Haven’t shared the curry recipe yet.Anyway,glad to hear that you enjoyed the curry in Sri Lanka….