An easy, tasty, and healthy main/side dish it is. My mom being a great cook and all has one small but potential flaw with her school of thought, that "she knows it all". So there were very few things that she wanted to try by knowing from others' cooking. If only she would be willing..we would have tasted all cuisines at home. But nevertheless she is always the best cook and the best mom as is everyone's mom to them. One such tasty "talimpu" that we missed all those years, is this week's entry " Seema vankaya tamlimpu". One of those days when I usually called her up and asked her what can be done with "Chayote", she gave me a recipe which she learnt from her big sis-inlaw. Hmm now this thing must have tasted heaven if she did learn it from her and not just that if she was sharing it then I thought this was special . Above all the recipe was just plain simple that it could be cooked in 15 minutes.
what you need
3 medium size seema vankaya/chayote
Seasoning
mustard
curryleaves
Special powder
Dry coconut 2 tbspn
6-7 dried red chillies
Fry the dried chillies in just a bit of oil. Powder the coconut and red chillies and keep aside. Peel,wash and cut the chayote into 1/2 inch trapeziums ( just to give you the exact shape). Now add oil to a frying pan and season with mustard seeds and curryleaves. Add the seema vankaya pieces fry them for about 5 minutes and add enough salt. Add diced onions now and stir. Now cover the pan with a lid and wait till the vanakya piecs become a bit soft. Finally add the powder to the pieces and give it a stir. that is it, our talimpu is done. You can eat it with hot steaming rice as a main dish or a side dish if you wish.
Now tell me was that not easy??
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