Mushroom spring onion with coconut (thoren)

As it is lent season some of my friends ask me to post some vegetarian dishes.  So you can expect more of veg dish posts till Easter. The following is a tasty side dish for plain rice.

Mushroom spring onion thoren

 

What you need

• Mushroom-150g

• spring onion with the bulb-1 small bunch(100g)

• onion-1small

• green chillies-2

• ginger- 1/2 inch piece

• garlic-2 cloves

• turmeric powder-1/4 tsp

• coconut grated-1/4 cup

• curry leaves-a sprig

• mustard- 1/4 tsp

• Oil-1tsp
• Kudampuli(malabar tamarind )-2small pieces

• salt to taste

Method

• Cut the mushroom into thin pieces.
• Chop the spring onion (keep the bulb part and the leaf parts separately) , onion,green chillies,garlic and ginger.
• Keep a woke in a medium flame and add a teaspoon of oil and splutter the mustard seeds.
• Add the onion, ginger, garlic, green chillies , curry leaves and spring onion bulbs one by one.
• Saute it till the onion becomes translucent.(about a minute and a half).
• Add turmeric powder and stir well.

• Now add the thinely sliced mushrooms, kudampuli and salt and stir and close it with a lid.

• After a minute  when you open the lid you can see the mushroom giving out its water.

• Keep the lid open and stir now and then till all the water gets evaporated.

• Now add the spring onion leaves and stir for half a minute and take out in a serving dish.