Appam paya – Many of you would have heard this combo or tasted in restaurants. Paya – Popularly known as “Attukal Paya” is one of the most popular
side dish for appam & idiyappam in Tamil nadu. It is basically a South Asian food that is served in festivals and occasions. Paaya means “Feet” in Urdu and Hindi. This dish is prepared by cooking goat legs (Trotters in English) in a spicy masala curry. This dish is adapted in local cuisines and this paya recipe vary regionally. The cooked leg pieces is served as soup for patients as it is considered to be healthy. I have heard about this dish from my Chennai friends. I thought it would taste more like
Parota Salna.
Recently my friend Shalini told she tasted appam with vegetable paya in Saravana bhavan Grand style hotel in Salem. It tempted me to try this recipe at home. I browsed few mutton paya recipes and got this particular version from
Mullai’s blog. I tweaked the recipe slightly as per my convenience and used potato instead of mutton. I made it for our Sunday breakfast as a side dish for
South Indian appam recipe. It came out finger licking delicious.
Sendhil and myself loved it a lot. I am sure, I will make this vegetable paya recipe often in my kitchen. Friends, do try this side dish for appam and idiyappam for a change. You will love it like us. You can prepare this gravy with mixed vegetables too. Ok, Lets see how to prepare paya recipe with potato ( Vegetarian version) with step by step photo !
From tomorrow I will start posting Ganesh chaturthi recipes.
Paya recipe - Vegetarian version with potato
Paya recipe - Side dish for appam with potato
Cuisine: Indian
Category: Side dish
Serves: 3
Prep time: 10 Minutes
Cook time: 20 Minutes
Total time: 30 Minutes
1 cup – 250ml
- Potato - 2 nos
- Big onion - 1 no
- Tomato - 2 nos.
- Cooking oil - 2 tbsp
- Cinnamon - 1 inch
- Cloves - 2 no
- G&G paste - 1 tsp
- Cardamom - 1 no
- Bayleaf - 1 no
- Black stone flower - 1 no
- Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp
- Turmeric powder - 1/8 tsp
- Red chilli powder - 1 tsp ( I used kashmiri chilli pwd)
- Garam masala powder or chicken masala powder – 1/2 tsp
- Salt & water - as needed
To saute & grind : Paste 1
- Cooking oil - 1 tbsp
- Medium sized Big onion - 1 no or small onion - 6 nos
- Coriander seeds / Dhania - 1.5 tsp
- Green chillies - 2-3 nos ( use 4 for more spicy taste)
For paste-2
- Grated coconut - 1/4 cup
- Pottukadalai/Fried gram - 2 tsp
- Water – to grind
Mint + coriander leaves – to garnish |
HOW TO MAKE VEGETABLE PAYA - METHOD
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Wash and peel the skin of potato. Cut into strips of 2 inches and set aside. I chopped it lengthwise to resemble goat legs ; )) Chop onion, tomato and keep apart.
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In a kadai, heat oil and saute one chopped big onion, dhania seeds and green chillies. Switch off the flame and let it cool. Grind it along with coconut + Fried gram dal as I did. OR As per the original recipe, you should grind Dhania+green chilli+ onion to a smooth paste (Paste 1). Grind coconut + fried gram dal to a smooth paste separately ( Paste 2). But I ground everything together.
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In a cooker base, heat oil and saute cinnamon, cloves, bayleaf, black stone flower, cardamom and fennel seeds. Add the chopped onions, g&g paste ( If you grind dhania+ chillies+onion paste separately, add it at this stage. Saute until its raw smell goes off.) Now add tomato, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, salt and saute until mushy. To this, add the sliced potato strips. Mix well for sometime. (Add coconut paste.i.e paste 2 if you have ground it seperately)
Enjoy !
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Note
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Adjust the quantity of chilli powder and green chillies as per your taste.
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You can skip adding coconut paste and make a watery gravy too.
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Instead of potato, you can use mixed vegetables like carrot, cauliflower, peas and beans.
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Delicious Vegetable paya with appam is a delectable combo. Do try it and enjoy !
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2 comments :
Thanks for the post chitra , i was searchin for this recipe .
Thanks Priya. Do try and share your feedback :)
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