Nadia Bara tarkari/ Coconut Bara curry

Nadia Bara tarkari/ Coconut vada curry. Coconut  is one staple fruit that used in various ways in Odia

cuisine. When it's young it's used like a healthy drink and have numerous number of health benefits. It's milk used in various curries (specially in seafood) to give a  rich and aromatic flavour and the meat of coconut (called as kernels) used in various pithas as well as used in  many authentic curry.  And one such Odia authentic  dish is Nadia Bara tarkari/ coconut bara curry. Coconut/ nadia  bara ( which is made of grated coconut, rice flour, cumin, green chillies, ginger, garlic) dunked in thin onion-tomato based gravy gives an unforgettable taste to one's taste buds.

Ingredients: 

Nadia Bara 
for the gravy:-
Onion- 1
Boiled potato- 2
ginger-garlic paste- 2Tbsp
Tomato- 1
Turmeric powder- 1 tsp
Redchilly powder- 1 tsp
bayleaves- 1
cumin seeds- 1/2 tsp
Garam masala- 1 tsp
Oil-  3 Tbsp
Salt- as per taste

Method:-

• Make a fine paste of onion & tomato.
• In a  kadai, add oil. add cumin seeds & bayleaves. When it starts to splutter ,add the onion-tomato paste into this, fry for few minutes.
• Then add ginger-garlic paste & fry till the raw smell of this masala goes away.
• Then add all the dry masalas into this & saute it till the oil starts to keaves from the sides & top.
• Cut the boiled potatoes in cube and add to the masala.
• Then add water(always make this gravy little watery than normal gravy)& salt, stir it. Simmer for 5/6 minutes. add the nadia bara into this & switch off the flame. serve it with plain steamed rice.