Drumsticks Curry

I knew only one way of using drumsticks; to put them in daal. But i didn't want to make daal today, so our maid suggested that we make drumstick's curry. Courtesy of this recipe goes to her.


Ingredients:

1) 1 big Onion
2) 1 medium sized tomato.
3) Fresh coconut : 3 inch piece
4) Cilantro (Coriander leaves): a handful
5) Garlic cloves: 5-6
6) Red chilli powder: 1 tsp
7) Turmeric powder: 1/4 tsp
8) Dhaniya powder: 1/2 tsp
9) peanut powder : 2 tsp
10) Drumsticks: 4 sticks.

Method:

1) Chop the onions and tomato finely.
2) In a pan cook the onions until they turn translucent then add the tomato and saute them till the raw smell disappears.
3) Cu and peel each drumstick into equal sized pieces, such that you have appx 3-4 pieces from 1 stick.
4) Saute the drumstick pieces in the above onion tomato mixture for 5 mins on medium flame.
5) Till then grind together the coconut, garlic and cilantro leaves in a mixer and add the paste. Keep sauteing
6) Add the red chilli, turmeric and dhaniya powder. Keep sauteing till oil start coming from the sauted mixture.
7) Now add 1 cup of water. (Needs to be added depending on the required constituency of the curry ).
8) When it comes to boil add the peanuts paste and cover with a lid.
9) Let it cook on a medium low flame till the drumsticks are cooked.
10) Serve hot with chapatis, rotis or rice.