Spicy Kovakkaai(Tindora) Masal

1 lb Kovakkaai - cut in your style

1 onion chopped
1 and 1/2 tomato chopped
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp urud dhal
1 tsp jeera
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tbsp sambar powder
Salt to taste
3 or 4 curry leaves
Coriander leaves chopped

Spice Powder - grind the following
1 tsp whole pepper
2 tsp gram dhal
2 tsp thoor dhal
1 red chili
1 tsp jeera

Take a pan, pour 2 tbsp oil, tamper with mustard seeds, urud dhal,jeera and curry leaves. Once they start spluttering, add onions and kovakkaai and let it cook. Don’t close the lid. The pan should be left open and toss it once a while so that it doesn’t get stuck to it. Once its 3/4 cooked, and then add chopped tomatoes. Add salt, sambar powder, turmeric powder to it and then close the lid of the pan and simmer the gas, until the tomatoes are mashed and the raw smell of the powders are gone. Finally add the spice powder grounded and mix it thoroughly. Sprinkle the coriander leaves and switch off the stove.

My kids loved it by mixing rice with Ghee and kovakkaai masal together. It also goes well with Roti.