കൂര്‍ക്ക മെഴുക്കുപുരട്ടി

Koorka is one of the favourites of the season. Its purely a season root. Though it is difficult to be cleaned,once cooked and eaten, you will forget the laborius task of cleaning them.

There are various, so called easy ways, to remove the skin. what i do is put them in cloth/gunny bag and hit it on the ground several times. That seems to be easy for me. Almost all the skin comes out in the process. Whatever little is sticking can be removed, whilie chopping them into pieces .

preparation:

chop the cleaned koorka into long thin shapes and wash well.transfer them to a vessel, Add 3cups of water, salt and turmeric powder.boil and cook till done.

for the masala :

small onions 10

red chillies 4
curry leaves ..few

oil ..2tbs

method:

crush chillies and onions.

heat a frying pan ,add oil ..when its hot add crushed masala and curry leaves .fry till brown and add koorka .keep on a low fire till the masala gets coated over the koorka and it is roasted.