White Asparagus Poriyal/Dry Curry

Serves: 2-3

Ingredients

• 10-12 sticks of white Asparagus
• 1 medium size potato
• 1 fresh green chili/ red chilly, chopped
• 1 tsp urad dal
• 1/2 tsp mustard
• 1/2 tsp channa dal
• 10-12 curry leaves/kadi patta
• a pinch of turmeric/haldi
• 1 tbsp oil
• 3-4 tbsp fresh grated coconut/kokos raspeln
• 1/2 tsp cumin /jeera powder
• salt as required

How to Prepare ?

1. Rinse, peel and chop the Asparagus into small pieces.Peel and chop the potato too.
2. Transfer the chopped veggies into a cooking vessel .Add very little water , turmeric powder , pinch of salt add little oil and cook for 5 mins . This shouldn't be overcooked . 
3. Heat the oil in a pan , add mustard seeds , urad dal  and channa dal 
4. Fry till the mustard seed pops out , now add curry leaves and green chilly. ( be careful ...make sure that you don't burn these !! )
5. Now add cooked asparagus and potatoes , sprinkle remaining salt  and stir
6. cover and let it  cook for a 5-6 minutes
7. sprinkle some water  if required if the moisture dries in the pan.
8. Now add coconut , jeera/cumin powder and give a stir.Switch off the flame.
9. Before adding the coconut, if there is water in the pan, then dry it by simmering on an open flame for a few minutes.
10. This goes well with Rice/Roti/Chapati.

Note:

If you want this dry curry to be more spicy , you can also add red chilly powder before you add coconut.