Today’s recipe is that of a quick to prepare and delicious beetroot dish.
Beetroot Varai
Time taken: 15 mins
Serves 3
Ingredients:
- Beetroot – 1 cup, grated
- Onion – 1
- Green chillies – 2
- Fennel seeds – 1 tsp
- Curry leaves – 1 sprig
- Coconut – 1 tbsp, freshly scraped
- Pepper – ½ tsp
- Salt – ½ tsp
- Sesame/ Gingelly oil – 2 tbsp
Method:
- Mix ½ tsp salt with 1 cup of grated beetroot and keep aside.
- Heat 2 tbsp sesame oil in a pan and fry the fennel seeds, chopped onion, green chillies and curry leaves for a minute.
- Add the grated beetroot to the pan and stir-fry for 5 – 10 mins over low heat.
- Add 1 tbsp coconut and ½ tsp pepper to the beetroot mix and cook for another 2 mins.
- Serve the beetroot varai with rice.
Recipe source: Raji Thillainathan.
A Taste of Sri Lankan cuisine 
Looks very nice and healthy as well with lots of flavours 🙂
Thank you. 🙂
Am a novice to the Tamil side of cooking. Have done quite a few of the vegetable dishes and they have turned out very well. Today I tried out the spicy ash plantain, the mushroom and the paithangai. Have you done a curry of whole red onions?
Hi! Thank you for your feedback. The mushroom and spicy ash plantain curries are among my favourites. By a curry of whole red onions, do you mean something similar to ‘vendhaya kulambu’ with the small red onions (shallots) that is made in the north? I have eaten it a number of times but haven’t made it as yet.