Mix Veg Kurma
Mix Veg Kurma is a medium spicy, slightly sweet and a tangy dish. Mixed vegetables are cooked in tomato and coconut based gravy. This preparation is more or less of South Indian style. I prepare 2 variants. With onion garlic and without. This recipe is without onion garlic. It can be served for with puris, chapati or paratha.
Serves: 2 to 3
Ingredients:
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| Spices to be fried |
- Cauliflower (small florets) – 25 to 30
- Carrot (peeled & diced) – 1 small
- French beans (shredded) – 6
- Fresh peas – handful
- Potato (peeled & cubed) – 1 small / medium
- Ripe Tomato (chopped) – 2 medium
- Coconut – 4 tbsp
- Cashew nuts (chopped) – 1 tbsp
- Yogurt – 1 tsp
- Tamarind – half a marble sized ball
- Ginger – 1 slice
- Peppercorns – 5
- Cloves -2
- Cinnamon – 1/4″ piece
- Star anise – 2 small or 1 big petal
- Black cardamom seeds – 3 to 4
- Green cardamom seeds – 3 to 4
- Fennel seeds – a pinch
- Bayleaf – 1 small
- Kashmiri mirchi – 1
- Coriander seeds – 1/2 tsp
- Cinnamon powder – a pinch
- Turmeric powder – 1/8 tsp
- Chilly powder – as per your requirement
- Oil – 1 1/2 tsp
- Ghee – 1 1/2 tsp
- Sugar – as per your requirement
- Coriander leaves – for garnishing
- Salt to taste
Procedure:
- Take a container, which would fit into your pressure cooker / pan. Put all the vegetables in it except tomato. Sprinkle cinnamon powder and little salt over it. Cover it. Pour a cup of water in the pressure pan and place the container it. Pressure cook till 2 whistles.
- In the meanwhile, heat oil in a kadai and fry ingredients numbering 12 to19 till they give out aroma. Take them out.
- Fry ginger, then red chilly and now coriander seeds. Take them out.
- In the same kadai, stir fry coconut till golden brown.
- Add cashew nuts and stir fry for 5 seconds.
- Add tomatoes and stir fry till tomatoes turn mushy.
- Let it cool.
- Combine all these ingredients with tamarind and turmeric powder, grind to a fine paste without adding water.
- Heat ghee in a pan add steamed vegetables. Stir fry for half a minute.
- Add ground paste, salt and water (180 to 200 ml approx). Stir well.
- Check the taste, add sugar and chilly powder as per your requirement. Bring it to boil.
- Add yogurt and simmer for 2 to 3 min.
- Garnish with coriander leaves.
- Serve hot with puri, chapati, paratha etc.
If you want to make it with onion and garlic, then you may have a look at the recipe for Veg Kurma.
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