Dondakai ( Tindora )

Tindora is a type of gherkin, which is also known as Kundru in U.P. Dondakai in Telugu, Tondekayi in Kannada, Telakuch in Bengali, and Kovakai in Malayalam.It is not the tastiest of dishes and is considered to be a distant cousin of the Parwal. In fact the Tindora Zhunka was one of the better tindora dishes I ever had.Well, the point of the post was that Kundru or the Tindora can help reduce blood sugar. Tindora is a good food for diabetics to eat, because it has very little carbohydrate and therefore will not raise your blood sugar dramatically, like potatoes for example.

Dondakai Ulli Karam

Ingredients :
dondakai small ones 2 cups.
Onion paste 1 cup
Chilli powder 1 spoon
Salt to taste
Oil 3 spoons
Mehtod :
Slit the dondakai ¾ th of it length wise.
Take a pan fry add oil and heat it.
Add onion paste and fry for 5 minutes till it leaves the oil.
Add salt to taste, chilli powder, and pasupu pinch.
Mix the onion paste and stuff the paste in the dondakai.
Fry these stuffed dondakai in the oil for 15-20 minutes till it becomes soft.
Serve it with hot rice.

Dondakai With Coconut

Ingredients :
2 cups chopped dondakai
Salt to taste
Coconut scrape ¼ th cup
Popu :
Mustard ½ spoon
Jeelakara ¼ th spoon
Senaga pappu ½ spoon
Red chill piece 1 spoon
Hingu pinch
Oil 1 spoon
Curry leaves few
Method :
Boil the dondakai in the cooker and strain the water.
Take a pan add oil to heat.
Add the popu ingredients and fry till 1 minute.
Then add the boiled dondakai and salt to the pan.
After the water evaporates add coconut scrape.
Serve the curry with hot rice.

Dondakai Jeelakara Karam

Ingredients :
Dondakai small ones 2 cups.
Jeelakara karam 2 spoons
Salt to taste
Oil 3 spoons
Mehtod :
Slit the dondakai ¾ th of it length wise.
Then boil them in the cooker and drain the water.
Take a pan fry add oil and heat it.
Add the boiled dondakai and fry for 15 minutes till they become cryspy.
Add salt to taste and jeelakara karam powder.
Fry them in the oil for 5 minutes till it mixes well.
Serve it with hot rice.

Dondakai Fry

Ingredients :
Dondakai pieces 2 cups
Oil 2 spoons
Salt to taste
1 table spoon menti gunda
Curry leaves little
Method :
Take a pan and heat the oil.
Add the pieces of dondakai to the oil with salt.
Putting the lid on the pan fry the pieces till they cook and become soft.
After it fries add menti gunda and curry leaves and mix well.
Goes well with hot rice.