Olan Recipe | Kerala Olan
Olan is a quite essential side dish in the Onam Sadya menu made with ash gourd, cow peas and fresh coconut milk as main ingredients. Olan is simple, easy and quick to make but tastes delicious. Learn to make Olan with step by step pictures and video.
Servings3
Ingredients
- 1 and 1/2 cups white ash gourd
- 1/2 cup cowpeas
- 2 green chillies slitted
- 1 cup thin coconut milk
- 1 cup thick coconut milk
- 1 small sprig curry leaves
- 1 teaspoon coconut oil
- salt to taste
- water as needed
Instructions
- Take 1/2 cup cow peas, rinse well and soak in water overnight. Drain water the next day and add it to a pan.
- Add water little more than immersing level.
- Cook covered until cow peas turns soft.
- Check by pressing, it should be soft and mash-able only when pressed hard.
- Now add 1 and 1/2 cups ash gourd along with few curry leaves and 2 green chilies slit into half lengthwise. Add salt to taste.
- Now add 1 cup thin coconut milk.
- Give a quick mix.
- Cook covered until ash gourd turns soft.
- Ash gourd and cow peas is cooked well. Switch off the stove.
- Add 1 cup thick coconut milk.
- Add few curry leaves and 1 teaspoon coconut oil to it.
- Give a quick mix.
- Olan is ready!
Video
Notes
- Make sure you cook both ash gourd and bean slightly mushy so that it absorbs the coconut milk flavor well and blends well.
- Switch off and then add coconut milk else there are chances for it to split.
- You can either pressure cook cow peas or open cook in a pot too. But if you want to open cook then soak the bean overnight. If you forget to soak then pressure cooking is the best and easiest option.
- Give an hour resting time at least for the vegetable and bean to absorb the curry well.
- I used homemade coconut milk, you can use coconut milk powder or ready made coconut milk which comes in cartons too.
- You can even use yellow pumpkin along with ash gourd for this curry.
Nutrition Facts
Olan Recipe | Kerala Olan
Amount Per Serving (75 g)
Calories 353
Calories from Fat 306
% Daily Value*
Fat 34g52%
Saturated Fat 30g188%
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.4g
Monounsaturated Fat 1g
Sodium 1315mg57%
Potassium 411mg12%
Carbohydrates 12g4%
Fiber 2g8%
Sugar 1g1%
Protein 6g12%
Vitamin A 4IU0%
Vitamin C 3mg4%
Calcium 70mg7%
Iron 7mg39%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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