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Home » MILLET RECIPES » Tindora rice (Ivy gourd rice) recipe | Millet recipes

Tindora rice (Ivy gourd rice) recipe | Millet recipes

December 12, 2014 by Raks Anand 13 Comments /

Tindora-rice
I like Tindora/ Kovakkai (Ivy gourd), so wanted to try this rice for long time. I buy it rarely as no one likes it at home. So far I have made kovakkai stir fry only twice. This time also I wanted to make stir fry only for me but saw this interesting recipe in Facebook page of Bhairavi naturals. Since I wanted to make use of the kodo millet I have got, I tried this with kodo millet. You can make the same with regular rice too as I have given in the below picture, but thought using this organic millets are healthier option, so made with varagu (Kodo millet). It is similar to vaangi bhat, but this masala powder was bit different from what I have, so happily tried this variation. It turned out so flavorful and tasty.
ivy-gourd-rice

Tindora rice recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Lunch
Prep Time: 10 mins    |  Cook time: 25 mins    |  Serves: 4

Ingredients

Ivy gourd (Kovakkai/ Tindora) – 15


Kodo millet or regular rice – 1 cup


Lemon juice – 2 tsp


Coriander leaves, chopped – 2 tblsp


Sesame oil – 2 tblsp


Salt – As needed


To roast & powder

Oil – 1 tsp


Red chillies – 6


Channa dal – 1 tblsp


Urad dal – 1 tsp


Coriander seeds – 1 tsp


Black Pepper – 1 tsp


Sesame seeds – 1 tsp


Grated coconut – 2 tblsp


To temper

Oil – 2 tsp


Mustard – 1 tsp


Jeera – 2 tsp


Curry leaves – 1 sprig


Method

  1. Pressure cook rice / millet with 1 & 1/2 cups of water. If rice soak for 30 mins prior cooking. Pressure cook for 3 whistles in medium flame. Cool down with sesame oil, little salt sprinkled over.
  2. Heat a kadai with oil and first roast the items given under ‘To roast & powder’ . Add coconut lastly after all the other ingredients gets roasted.1-roast
  3. Cool down to powder it.2-powder 
  4. Slit cut each tindora into 4 strips.  Temper the items given under ‘To temper’ table. Add tindora, little salt, turmeric and fry in low flame for 5 minutes or until it starts turning golden here and there.3-temper 
  5. Add a cup of water and let the tindora gets cooked and lastly add the masala powder.4-saute 
  6. Cook in medium flame until oil separates. Squeeze the lemon juice and add coriander leaves.5-cook 
  7. The mix should be like a thick shiny paste. Fluff the cooled rice well.6-cooked
  8. Add to the cooked rice, mix well.7-mix 

Notes

    • The millet will look sticky when you open the cooker, but as it cools down, it will turn fluffy.

Just serve with fryums and it tastes great!

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Comments

  1. Farin Ahmed

    December 12, 2014 at 10:27 am

    Healthy tindora rice!!!! love it

    Reply
  2. சாருஸ்ரீராஜ்

    December 12, 2014 at 11:11 am

    healthy one

    Reply
  3. Vimitha Anand

    December 12, 2014 at 4:25 pm

    Thats a very healthy one…

    Reply
  4. padma veeranki

    December 13, 2014 at 9:43 am

    I love this vegetable…..will try this!!

    Reply
  5. Ranjani Raj

    December 19, 2014 at 12:37 pm

    am not a big fan of kovakai.. i heard its really a big health supplement.. so i can try like this kinda different varieties to take in 🙂

    Reply
  6. Krithika Balu

    March 10, 2015 at 1:02 am

    a innovative recipe loved it 🙂

    Reply
  7. Madhavi Sawant

    January 21, 2018 at 10:54 am

    I made it and loved the flavor it gave . Best part was no cutting onions and the usual ginger garlic . Just got too spicy for us .. will have less chillies next time. Thanks for ur recipe

    Reply
  8. Ginger

    July 2, 2018 at 7:39 am

    Looks delicious… What other veggies can be used instead of ivy gourd?

    Reply
  9. Raks Kitchen

    July 3, 2018 at 8:42 am

    Brinjal can be added 🙂

    Reply
  10. kalaivani jayaraj

    February 12, 2019 at 10:23 am

    For one cup millet how much water should be added mam..?? Say me for cooker and also in pot

    Reply
  11. Raks Kitchen

    February 13, 2019 at 12:10 am

    For pressure cooker, I have used 1 & 1/2 cup. For pot, use 2 cups for such rice varieties.

    Reply
  12. sudha chakravarthy

    July 20, 2019 at 11:34 pm

    Can I use little millet

    Reply
    • Raks Anand

      July 24, 2019 at 2:03 pm

      Sure, same measures.

      Reply

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