Pineapple Kairasa

                       

Pineapple Kairasa

Pineapple kairasa is an authentic Udipi recipe. It is also called mudduli. It is a sour and sweet dish that goes well with either chapati or rice.

Ingredients:
1/2 sour pineapple
1 cup coconut
1 table spoon tamrind extract
1 table spoon channa dal
1 table spoon urad dal
1 table spoon til (seseme seeds)
6-7 red chilies
2 strands curry leaves
1 spoon methi seeds
1/4 tea spoon hing
1/2 tea spoon haldi
2 table spoon jaggery
Salt to taste
1 spoon mustard
1 table spoon oil

Preparation:
1. Peel and cut pineapple into one inch pieces.
2. In a thick bottom vessel put pineapple pieces, tamarind extract, jaggery, haldi and salt.Cook covered till pine apple pieces becomes soft.
3. Heat half table spoon oil and add red chillies, channa dal, urad dal, methi, hing ,til, and 1 strand curry leaves and roast till urad dal and channa dal turn light brown and til starts to split.
4. Grind the above  roasted masala with coconut into fine paste adding water.
5. Add this ground masala to the cooked pineapple and simmer on low flame for two to three minutes.Add enough water to adjust the consistency of the gravy. Put off the flame. .(adjust sweetness, sourness to ones taste).
6. Heat the remaining oil in a tadaka pan, add mustard, curry leaves. When mustard splits add to the gravy.
7. Serve with rice or roti.