Tindora Masala Fry, also known as Dondakaya Vepudu in Telugu cuisine, is a delicious South Indian dish made with ivy gourd (tindora). It’s typically prepared as a dry stir-fry and served with rice.
Tindora Masala Fry is a favorite at home. I pan fry the tindora with onion. This way of cooking caramelizes the vegetable. Then I spice it up with garlic, onion, coconut, coriander leaves, garam masala and red chilly powder. The sweet flavor of onion and tindora with all the spices works beautifully. A very simple recipe, but definitely big in flavors.
Tindora Masala Fry
Tindora Masala Fry, also known as Dondakaya Vepudu in Telugu cuisine, is a delicious South Indian dish made with ivy gourd (tindora).
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Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 30 tindora
- 1 large onion, chopped small
- 3 medium garlic cloves
- 1 handfull fresh coriander leaves
- ½ teaspoon garam masala
- 1 teaspoon red chili powder or to taste
- salt to taste
- 2-3 teaspoons Lemon juice to taste
Tempering
- 3 teaspoons oil
- 1 teaspoon chana dal
- ½ teaspoon urad dal
- ½ teaspoon cumin seeds
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
- ⅛ teaspoon hing
Instructions
- Wash the tindora, cut the edges, slit lengthwise and then cut to small pieces. Cutting tindora does test your patience, but its worth the end result.
- Now take a wide skillet, add the oil, followed by mustard seeds, Chana dal and cumin seeds. Fry for few seconds. Then add the curry leaves and onion. Fry for five minutes.
- Add the cut tindora, salt and turmeric powder. Add splashes of water in between and close the lid and cook in a low flame stirring often so. You can also cook the tindora in microwave to cut short the total amount of cooking.
- While the tindora is cooking, take a mortar add the garlic cloves, coconut and coriander leaves and grind them.
- When the tindora is almost cooked, add the ground mixture, garam masala, red chili powder and tiny bit of sugar. Cook for another ten minutes in a low flame till it becomes a dry sabji.
- Adjust the salt and finally add the lemon juice.
- Serve with rice, dal and rasam.
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Areesha
How much of mustard seeds?
Madhavi
About 1/2 tsp mustard seeds.
Sony P
Tasty and easy stir fry!!
Divya Pramil
Nice delectable clicks sis 🙂 Loved the masala too 🙂
Arthy Suman
Hi Madhu, this is my first visit here saw ur potato sandwich post in Divy’s place….love ur blog…
Sona S
delicious masala fry!
Janani
I love these so tempting madhu.
Vimitha Anand
Tindora is my mom favorite. will try this for her. yum
Sireesha Puppala
Wow madhu tempting dear 🙂 nice clicks too
Amy
wow!!yummy!!