Stewing in Malayalam
പുഴുങ്ങല് (puzhungal) covers stewing along with boiling and steaming, since Malayalam does not split the three the way English does. Say pu-zhun-gal. Cooking tubers slowly in a little water is exactly what it describes.
Most common translation
Boiling, stewing, steaming.
കപ്പയുടെ പുഴുങ്ങല് ഇപ്പോൾ കഴിഞ്ഞു.
kappayude puzhungal ippol kazhinju.
The boiling of the tapioca is done now.
All Malayalam words for “stewing”
- പുഴുങ്ങല് (puzhungal) — Boiling, stewing, steaming.
- പുഴുക്ക് (puzhukku) — Vegetable preparation made by cooking (stewing) banana, tubers, yam, jack fruit, etc.
പുഴുക്ക് (puzhukku) is not the method but the dish, the Kerala preparation of plantain, yam or jackfruit cooked that way.
Common questions
How do you say stewing in Malayalam?
Stewing is പുഴുങ്ങല് (puzhungal).
Is puzhukku a kind of stew?
Close to it. പുഴുക്ക് (puzhukku) is tubers and plantain stewed until soft, usually finished with grated coconut, and the word names the dish rather than the cooking.