Salna Without Vegetables / Plain Salna

                               

 Salna is a very tasty plain curry made without adding vegetables and can be served with parotta, puri, idiyappam or appam.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Salna Without Vegetables / Plain Salna.

Ingredients:-

Onion.                           -2
Tomato.                         -2
Green chillies.               -4
Ginger garlic paste.       -2 tsp
Kashmiri chilli powder.-1&1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder.         -1/2tsp
Coriander powder.        -1tbsp
Garam masala.              -1tsp
Curry leaves.                 -1sprig
Coriander leaves.           -few
Mint leaves.                   -few
Cinnamon.                     -2 small
Cloves.                           -2
Bay leaf.                         -2
Besan /gram flour.         -1&1/2 tbsp
Water.                             -as required
Salt.                                -to taste
Oil.                                 -3tbsp

For grinding Coconut Cashew Paste:-

Grated coconut.        -1cup
Fennel seeds.            -1tbsp
Kuskus/poppy seeds.-1tbsp
Cashew nuts.            -1/4 cup

Instructions:-

1). Grind grated coconut along with fennel seeds, kuskus (poppy seeds) and cashew nuts to a smooth paste.Keep aside the ground coconut cashew paste.

2). In a bowl add 1 and 1/2 tbsp gram flour (besan) and 1/2 cup of water and mix well without lumps.Keep aside the gram flour mixture.

3). Peel and chop onion into thin lengthy slices. Finely chop tomato.Slit green chillies. Finely chop few mint leaves and few coriander leaves. Keep aside.

Method:-

1). Heat 3tbsp oil in a wide bottom pan and add bay leaf, cinnamon and cloves into the pan and saute well.

2). Add thinly sliced onion and a pinch of salt into the pan and saute well till onion becomes translucent and golden brown. Add ginger garlic paste and saute well till raw smell goes.

3). Add slit green chillies and curry leaves into the pan and saute well in oil. Add finely chopped few coriander leaves and few mint leaves into the pan mix well.

4). Add finely chopped tomato into the pan and saute well till soft and mushy. Add kashmiri red chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder and garam masala powder into the pan and mix well. Add required salt and 1/2 cup of water into the pan and mix well. Boil and cook the spicy masala mixture till raw smell goes.

5). Add ground coconut cashew paste and 1 cup of water into the pan and mix with spicy onion tomato masala mixture and boil well.

6). Add gram flour mixture into the pan and mix well without lumps. Add 1 and 1/2 cup of water and boil for 10 minutes on medium flame. Add finely chopped few coriander leaves into the pan and mix all the ingredients. Cover and cook for 15minutes on low flame and switch off the flame.

A very tasty Plain Salna / Salana Without Vegetables is ready to serve with parotta, chapathi, puri, Idiyappam or appam.