Chenai is known as yam or suran.

The various types are made with: Chenai & banana ( if nenthran variety is available, it can be used) Yellow pumpkin Drumsticks Chenai & banana: Chenai & Banana - 3 cups of cubes pepper powder - 1/2 tsp chilli powder - 1/2 tsp Grated coconut - 4 tbsp ( or more, to taste) Salt To temper: Coconut oil - 2 tsp Mustard seeds - tsp Jeera - tsp Curry leaves - few Boil both vegetables in water with haldi. Either half pepper powder & half chilli powder) can be added or few peppercorns & red chillies fried in few drops of oil can be freshly ground & added. Some prefer to add only pepper. Halfway through the cooking, add salt. Now take 4 tbsp of grated coconut in the mixi & give one run. Remove half & to the other half add tsp rice ( optional ) & grind

fine. Add the finely ground paste the vegetables, simmer & remove. To temper, heat oil, add the given ingredients & finally add half the coconut (reserved) & fry till light brown & add. This can be made like a kootu to be used as a side dish or like sambar consistency to be used as a kuzambu. The photo is given below. This can be made with chenai alone also.
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Yellow Pumpkin: - called mathan eriseri. Vegetable cubes - 2 cups Cooked moong dhal - 2 tbsp (optional) To grind to a paste: Coconut - 3 tbsp Red chilli - 2 Jeera - tsp To temper: Coconut oil - 2 tsp Mustard sesds - tsp Jeera - 1/2 tsp ( or use urad dhal) Finely grated coconut - 1 tbsp

Curry leaves - few To temper, heat oil, add the given ingredients & finally add the coconut & frty till light brown & add. Drumstick Eriseri: Cut the vegetable into 2 pieces & proceed as above. There is another recipe for chenai eriseri for those who want to avoid coconut: Chenai cut into medium sized cubes 2 cups To fry in tsp oil & grind Red chillies 2 Pepper 1 tsp Bengal gram dhal 1 tbsp Curry leaves few Hing powder tsp Salt,haldi To temper; Oil - 1 tsp 1 tsp mustard seeds Put the vegetable, ground paste, salt & haldi with 1 1 cups of water in a pressure pan. .Cook for two whistles. After cooling open & mash very lightly .to get the required

consistency Temper with mustard seeds in 1 tsp oil.