Kappa

Cuisine Style: Kerala | Cooking Time: 20 minutes | To Serve: 2 | Take with: Fish Curry | Type: Breakfast

Ingredients

• Kappa (Maravalli Kizhangu : Tamil, Tapioca : English) - 1 Kg
• Green chilli - 2 Nos
• Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
• Garlic - 5 nos
• Curry leaves
• Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
• Tamarind water (Not extract. 10 g tamarind dissolved in one cup of water)
• Oil - 1 1/2 tbsp
• Salt to taste

Preparation

• Take one green chilli and grind it to paste.
• Dissolve this paste and salt in tamarind water and add 1/4 tsp turmeric powder.
• Peel off Tapioca (Kappa) and boil it in this mixture (If you want kappa to be soft use cooker).
• After cooked spread in a plate and cut into pieces.
• In a pan heat oil put mustard and let it to splutter.
• Now put the Kappa pieces and fry for 5 minutes.
• Garnish with curry leaves.
• Serve with fish curry.

Note

• You can boil Kappa in water without any mixture.
  

Tip

• Add red chilli for extra hot.

How this Kappa recipe is Unique?

• We are boiling in a chilli, tamarind, turmeric and salt mixture. This mixture penetrates to the entire kappa and the whole Kappa becomes tasteful.