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Thondekai palya recipe

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Discover the easy recipe for Thondekai palya, also known as Ivy gourd stir fry, explained with step-by-step pictures . This delectable dish features ivy gourd cooked with red chili powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, amchur powder, and coconut. It is a simple and flavorful sabzi or stir fry recipe using tindora (ivy gourd) as the main ingredient. You can serve this dish as a delightful accompaniment to rice or chapathi.
Ivy gourd is known by various names, such as thondekayi or thondekai in Kannada, Ivy gourd or gherkins in English, tindora in Hindi, dondakaya in Telugu, kovakka in Malayalam, kovakkai in Tamil, tendli or tondli in Marathi, manoli in Tulu, kundru in Oria, and kundli in Assamese.
Thondekayi or ivy gourd is a highly delicious vegetable that is commonly found and easily grown in the Malnad and Karavali regions of Karnataka.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Breakfast
Cuisine Indian
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

  • 250gm thondekayi or ivy gourd or tindora
  • 4 tsp cooking oil
  • 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
  • 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
  • A big pinch of turmeric powder
  • A big pinch of hing or asafoetida
  • 4 - 5 curry leaves
  • 1/2 - 1 tsp red chili powder
  • 1 tsp coriander powder
  • 1/4 tsp cumin powder
  • 1/4 tsp amchur powder or vate huli or thick tamarind extract
  • 1/4 cup grated coconut (dry grind it)
  • Salt as per your taste

Instructions
 

  • Rinse and snip off the ends of thondekai or ivy gourd. Then slice them into 1/2cm width circles.
  • Take oil in a frying pan and heat it. Prepare tempering using mustard seeds, cumin seeds, turmeric powder, asafoetida and curry leaves.
  • Add in sliced thondekai or ivy gourd.
  • Mix well for a minute. Close the lid and cook it under low flame by stirring occasionally. This might take at around 10 minutes.
  • Once the ivy gourd or thondekayi is all shrinken or starts becoming brown here and there it is done.
  • Add in all spice powders like red chili powder, coriander powder, cumin powder and amchur powder. Give a quick stir.
  • Dry grind the coconut and add. Again give a quick mix.
  • Add in salt and mix.
  • Adjust the salt, sour or spice level as per your taste. I added little more red chili powder at this stage. Mix well and it is done. Serve it with rice or chapathi.
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