Moru curry/ Kalan (Spiced curd/plain yogurt)- How to make a heightened round shaped plate presentation

Moru curry/ Kalan
Always remember “BUFF” when plating food, balance, unity, focus and flow.
Heightened plate presentation consists of placing several elements on top of each other or in an elevated fashion to create a heightening effect. Add height to the plate, either you can add potatoes, rice or pasta, anything which is stable and should accompany the main course. Always think about contrasting the colours as well. Keep in mind that every element in the plate must play an important role in the texture and taste as a whole.
Here we have done Moru curry (spiced curd/ plain yogurt) basmati rice, rainbow salad with honey and wholegrain mustard dressing. For the salad we have used Pearl barley, quinoa, couscous, chickpeas, red peppers, corn, and edamame beans served on Anaheim pepper boat. For the garnish we used dill leaves, watercress, parsley, olives and red peppers.
Moru curry is a simple curd/ plain yogurt based kerala dish which goes well with rice.
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Moru Curry / spiced yogurt cooking instructions.
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients
Buttermilk /Beaten Sour Curd | 500 ml |
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Ginger | 2 tsp chopped |
hallots/Small onion | 2 nos chopped |
Green chili | to taste chopped |
Dry red chili | 2 nos |
Tumeric powder | 1/2 tsp |
Mustard | 1/2 tsp |
Fenugreek | 1/4 tsp |
Salt | to taste |
Coconut Oil /Cooking Oil | 1 tbsp to temper the ingredient |
Method
1.Beat the curd well to make it smooth. If you want add little bit of water for a better consistency
2. Add water a little at a time blending it to keep it smooth
3. Heat oil in a pan & splutter mustard & fenugreek seeds.
4. Add dry red chilli, chopped small onion, green chillies, chopped ginger, curry leaves, sauté it for a minute.
5. Add turmeric powder, salt and mix well.
6. Add buttermilk/ well beaten sour curd and mix well.
7. Keep it on medium-low heat with continuous stirring till the mix foams up and rises again ( never bring it to boil. Yogurt will split) It will take around 5 minutes.
8. Remove from fire, stir for a few more minutes. Serve with rice.
Always an artistic, creative and beautiful presentation. The food also sounds so delicious.
Thanks a lot for this beautiful words Suzann.
Lovely presentation! Using the green pepper as a boat to hold the salad is a great idea.
Thanks a bunch for this beautiful words Latha.
Wonderful presentation ! Good to know about BUFF presentation !Very nice Sumith! Thanks for sharing your knowledge !
You are very welcome Payal. Looking forward for BUFF in your next post!
Beautiful 🙂
Thank you Linda.
Oh wow Sumith, I didn’t imagine that the humble moru curry could be so beautifully presented. I just can’t take my eyes off it ?
Thanks a lot Radhika for this beautiful words.
Presentation very attractive
Thanks a lot Krishna.
beautiful presentation….. looks yummy…..
Thanks a lot Sudhir.
Love this curry… Excellent presentation as always
Thank you Ruchi for this beautiful words.
I often find plating difficult in South Asian cuisine. Thanks for the advice. I’ll try to remember BUFF. Beautiful recipe!
Thank you Isbanu for stopping by. Once when used with presentation you will enjoy it more than cooking.
Bhai if only I could cook and present like you. Whatever I make ends up as a burnt utensil. Haha
Hi Harsh Bhai, Try cooking you will be the best and will turn into a very rewarding hobby!!
Lovely recipe and presentation Sumith! I love Moru curry and the salad looks just incredible. Such a tempting meal!
Thanks a lot Mona for your inspirational words.
Your presentation is always so lovely!
Thank you Elizabeth:) My comment box was not active earlier as I made some changes by mistake:-)
Ohh…I’m missing home!! ?? So beautifully presented!
Here it is Home away from Home!! Thank you Aisha:)
You’re welcome! 🙂
So beautiful sumith….. Hope this was a live show and an opportunity to taste such a lovely thing….
Thank you Steve. You very motivative 🙂
Am I seeing an art or recipe??…( Though plating is an art)… What an awesome plating for simple moru curry?
Thank you Lathiya for that amazing bunch of words!!
I just said what I thought?…my pleasure..
This is looking very good, even for a meat-eater like me! I’m taking copious notes 🙂
It’s a real honour for me, from a chef like you. Thank you Alex:)
Actually, you’re the chef. I’m just an interested amateur 🙂
You do really good work, Sumith.
Thanks for your inspiration Alex:) Need to learn much from you.
Beautiful plating job especially the vibrant colours.
Thank you Boleyn, you made it even more colourful:)
A gravity defying plating job. Very pretty. 🙂
Rini you made it even pretty in your words!! Thank you.
Yummmmmm???
Thanks Neethu?
Splendid ?Too good.
Thank you SKD:)
Great tips on plating. Is that a chilli you stuffed with all those amazing grains and spices?
Hi Loretta, yes it’s Anaheim pepper. Glad you like those little tips:)
Lovely presentation!! the Moru curry is very similar to what we make in Karnataka, Majjige Huli except for a few additions and subractions! The salad sounds delicious too:)
Thank you Divya. Majjige HuLi simple and delicious!! I have tried it during my studies in Karnataka.
Your presentation has always been so good.The tips you give are really of great help.Thanks.
Glad you liked those little tips. Thank you Anuradha:)
You are welcome.
Amazing, great tips, your presentation is beautiful.
You made my day !! Thank you Dyanna
beautiful!!
So beautiful ! A symphony of colours.
Thank you Aheikkinen:)
good to see how beautifully the simple moru curry is placed with garnished spices. 🙂 IS that yellowish outer rim : oil?
Thank you for your compliments. It’s tadhaka. Strained the mustard, dry chilly and curry leaves?. And just to let you know am a fan of your writing? loved that post Serendipity!!
Thank you so much Sumith, ur words are really overwhelming 🙂 I am a foodie who loves to cook authentic kerala dishes and hence ur blog seemed so interesting to me. I do make moru curry but sometimes we used cocunut paste too, my mother adds one or two gooseberries while making the coconut gravy.
Kerala cuisine is one of the easiest one compared to other Indian cuisines. I love trying every cuisine and more over interested in fusion now. There you will love to juggle different flavours and combinations. Yes some times we add coconut paste and gooseberries in moru curry. If we add plantains it changed in to kalan? some use Indian cucumbers as well.
yes yes… 🙂
the post serendipity was really a serendipity. It originated from no where :p
Any way love that read? keep posting your serendipitic posts?
🙂 yeah sure 🙂
Love this curry… Awesome presentation
Thank you Ruchi:)
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Thank you. Congratulations!! You well deserve it!!
Thanks 🙂
Wow! Genius!
Thanks Utkarshani:)
Hah, I can only dream of such presentations… that is brilliant..the Pepper boat is cute!
Thank you Sapphire☺
Beautiful, beautiful plating!
Thank you Chris?
Love your presentation skills 🙂
Thank you Freda:)
Hie Sumith! I have nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award! Check it out in my new post on Binding Curry 🙂
Thank you Utkarshini. And congratulations to you, you well deserve it!!
Thankyou Sumith & same to you as well?
Beautiful presentation! Everything about this screams ‘delicious’ 🙂
Thank you Nafisa:)
Food presentation at its absolute best! You always make your dishes look not just delicious but so beautiful as well. I don’t know how you bear to eat them after all the effort that goes into making them so beautiful, but I’m sure you just about manage. 🙂
Thanks for those amazing words Vanessa. Just sharing few bits what I have learnt from my experience. Glad you enjoy it.
Wow…. looks dramatic and colorful. Very nice presentation 🙂
Sindhu thanks a lot!!
What a beautiful presentation !
Thank you Lina!! You have an Awesome blog!!
Thank you!
I was Gone for sometime but couldn’t skip any of your posts. You are giving lovely tips to amatures like me. Lovely tips and what a presentation. I can never even imagine in these ways. Am amazed at what a simple the dish maybe but the elements added to it and the presentation is just awesome and mesmerizing. I really have no words to say ………
Hi Meena, that’s true. Some times we find difficult to find time to spend here, especially with little kids.(Will write a post on that??) Thanks for the compliments. Somebody else has taught me that and I am trying to share it. Sharing is caring… more you share more you learn? My three posts are ready, but didn’t get the time to write. Wish I was a bachelor again!!?
Haha. Very true. I also do click a lot of pictures. Then the problem comes in editing them and posting. But yours are very informative. Am glad I knew you here.
Thank you Meena:)
Spectacular.. U play vid ur ingredients ????
Thank you Vinita:)
Beautiful !
Thank you Nico
Very artistic, Sumith. Looks very delicious as well.
Thanks a lot Robbie for your encouraging words.
Awesome presentation skills — so colourful — loved it — ?
Thank you Sangita
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Your every dish looks like a art piece. Awesome presentation ? ?
Thanks a lot Sujata.