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Omakka Thakkali Murangakkai pulissery /Papaya Tomato Drumstick in Yogurt coconut gravy

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Pulissery is one of the curries amma used to make more often at home. Among the gravies that amma made such as sambar, Rasam and pulissery, sambar occupies the first position and pulissery and rasam running a close second. This dish is common in our feast menu also. Pulissery is usually made with cucumber, okra, and tomato and is a hot and sour curry. It is hot from chilies and sourness from the yogurt used. There are other kind of pulissery also where we adds fruits such as ripe mango, ripe plantain, ripe pineapple etc. I like fruit version compared to veggies one, because of balance of flavors between sweet, sour and spiciness.
After making stir fry with papaya and left with ¼th portion of it which was not enough for any curry I decided to add papaya and tomato to make a pulissery. While opening my freezer I also found a long lost pack of drumstick (Moringa oleifera read more from here), which had 4 pieces left (don’t get confused with our favorite chicken drumstick). I also incorporated drumstick into my pulissery. Drumstick is a very slender, slim looking vegetable. Among the vegetables, if a catwalk is organized, drumstick will be supermodel.  Finally I got a wonderful combo of papaya, tomato and drumstick in this pulissery.
Pulissery is yogurt based gravy with touch of coconut (off course we can’t live without them), cumin seeds and green chilies. Not similar but distant cousin of this curry you can see in Rajasthani cuisine where yogurt and chana dal flour is used where they are called Kadhi. However it lacks coconut. Sometimes, ginger is also grinded along with coconut. I used my mom’s recipe for making this delicious curry. Here goes the recipe.

What you need

 Papaya/omakka: 1 cup (chopped into bite size)
Tomato: 3 no (chopped into bite size)
Drum stick: 4 bite sized pieces
Yogurt: ½ cup
Salt: 1 teaspoon
Coconut: ½ cup
Green chili: 1 no ( I used hot Thai chilly)
Curry leaves: 1 sprig
Oil: 2 tablespoon (I used olive oil, use coconut oil for authentic taste)
Cumin: ½ teaspoon
Red chilies: 2 no (halved into two pieces)
Mustard seeds: ¼ teaspoon
Turmeric: ¼ teaspoon
Water: 2 cup for cooking + ½ cup for grinding

How I made

In a medium sauce pan add papaya, drumstick, salt and turmeric and cook for 15 minutes or until done with lid closed.
To this add chopped tomato and cook for another 3 minutes. 
In the mean time grind coconut, cumin and green chili with½ cup water for a fine paste and set aside.
Add the coconut paste to papaya, tomato, drumstick mixture and bring it to a boil. Reduce the flame and add yogurt to this mixture and let it simmer for 2 minutes and switch off the flame.
In a small pan add oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves and red chilies. Once mustard seeds starts popping switch off the flame add this mixture to cooked vegetable yogurt mixture. 
Enjoy with rice and stir fry.

Preparation time.25 minutes
Yield: 4 serving
Verdict: Tasty
Will you make it again: Making more often.

Swathi

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  1. Sayantani says

    great that you had a good trip to India Swathi. loved reading about your days with families. love to the little princess.
    love this dish especially the gravy. very new and refreshing.

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  2. RAKS KITCHEN says

    Looks very tempting,lovely click too!

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  3. Suma Rajesh says

    adipoli pullisherry

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  4. SpicyTasty says

    Hi Swathi, Pulisery looks so good.

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  5. Viki's Kitchen says

    Pulissery looks authentic. I am drooling.

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  6. srividhya Ravikumar says

    very tempting gravy swathi.. looks lovely...

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  7. Jaisy James says

    looks yummyyyyy

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  8. Adelina says

    interesting dish! bookmarking for future reference!

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  9. Sreelekha Sumesh says

    Wow!pulissery with all those veggies sound great.Delicious!

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  10. Reeni says

    You have me laughing over here - about the catwalk! This looks hearty and flavorful Swathi! I wish I could taste your delicious cooking. Thank you for your sweet comment about the competition.

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  11. Faith says

    This sounds like a great combo of flavors! I love papaya and coconut together!

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  12. ladyyjae says

    this doesnt look like a too heavy curry 🙂 something i would like to eat :). looks deliciously and professionally made!!! Share some with me swathi. I haven't had curry for so long noww. miss them.

    have a lovely tuesday love.
    jen @ http://www.passion4food.ca

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  13. Nitha says

    Never tried this combo.. But I like each of them. .So should be great..

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  14. Gulmohar says

    That's a new combo in pulissery...looks delicious swathi

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  15. Priya says

    Such a delicious, creamy and yummy looking pulissery..very tempting..

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  16. PALATABLE says

    Welcome back dear, this looks really yummy but never cooked papaya this way, thanks for sharing...

    http://treatntrick.blogspot.com

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  17. kitchen queen says

    nice and tangy gravy very tempting and inviting.

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  18. Nithya says

    Looks so good and tempting. Its a little new to me. will try it out soon 🙂

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  19. sinfullyspicy says

    slurrrp....i just love yogurt based curries.Your is so healthy with all those veggies!yum !Never had raw papaya in a curry but this curry is drawing me towards it 🙂
    Tanvi

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  20. Rachana says

    What a tempting curry! These pics make me hungry 🙂

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  21. Vrinda says

    Nice curry Swathi..never tried drumstick n papaya together...must try

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  22. aipi says

    What a lovely looking curry..rich n tasty!
    Beautiful presentation Swathi!

    US Masala

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  23. Satya says

    wow what a beautiful combo n with coconut gravy ...looks very tempting ...yummy..must be gr8 with rotis

    Satya
    http://www.superyummyrecipes.com

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  24. Sushma Mallya says

    I have not used papaya in any of my dishes till now and the ingredients used in this gravy also are very nice,would be very tasty too...

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  25. Silence Sings says

    During my student life my mom used to cook papaya with coconut...but you cooked a very different flavour indeed...loved the recipe....looks very tasty...

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  26. Priscilla says

    that looks so good! great colorful dish!

    Have a great day!
    Priscilla

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