Saturday, February 18, 2012

Tapioca cubes in baby onion & coconut curry

We call this kappa-kelangu in Tamil, it is cooked until soft and sautéed with south indian standard seasoning - mustard,dals and curry leaves and topped with grated coconut.Tastes yummy with fish curry :) (very very popular with the keralites too.)




This time i tried to make this slightly differently(added onions) and used it as a side dish for chapatis.I loved the watery startchy liquid gravy with baby onions and coconut!




Tapioca is a root that is commonly used in many parts of the world.In our country, it is widely used in the southern states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.The pearly translucent balls-sago balls or sabudhana or javarisi used in payasams is also made from tapioca/casava.Read more about tapioca here.



Even my LM liked it, i didn't give her the sautéed tapioca but i just cooked the tapioca with salt and turmeric and drained the excess water and gave it to her.Since tapioca is a root its completely healthy and completely proteinous!

To make this, I used

Tapioca/kappa 1 no
Curry leaves few sprigs
Baby onions 12-15 nos chopped finely
Coconut oil 2 tablespoons
Grated coconut 2 tablespoon(or more depending on how big your tapioca is)
Turmeric powder 1/2tsp
Red chillies 2 or 3 nos
Mustard seeds 1/2tsp
Urad dal/black lentils 1/2 tsp


  • Peel the tapioca - it has two layers of peels one brown and an inner pink layers.Chop the tapioca into cubes.
  • Cook the tapioca in an open vessel with enough water with salt and turmeric powder.The tapioca is cooked when soft you can cut through the cubes easily once cooked.
  • Heat oil in a pan, add the mustard seeds,urad dal,red chillies and curry leaves. Now add the chopped baby onions and fry until soft.
  • Add the tapioca cubes and sautee well in the seasoning.Add required water (about half a cup or this is completely optional).This dish is usually served dry.


  • Cook for another few minutes check for salt and turn off the heat.
  • Serve with chapatis as i did or with south indian fish curry :) or as a healthy protein packed tea time snack!

11 comments:

  1. Nice twist to the regular seasoning, adding onions shud have made it more tasty..

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  2. First time here, u have beautiful blog, beautiful clicks too.., lovely curry adding onions is a nice twist

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  3. very yummy recipe of tapioca......lovely clicks too

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  4. Beautifully done and appetizingly presented.Luvly Ckicks.

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  5. interesting and yummy curry...looks inviting dear!
    thanks for linking to the event
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  6. nice one prince.. appa does this in a very similar way.. :) bought back memories!

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    1. yes Rasi this is the traditional way minus the water and onions :)

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