Vegetable Kuruma

About the recipe:

Here is a very mild and flavourful recipe. Let us learn to prepare this healthy and delicious "Vegetable kuruma". This tastes great with chapathi, poori, appam and idiyappam.

Preparation Time: 10 mins

Cook Time: 15 mins

Serves: 2-3

Ingredients needed:

Vegetables: 2 cups (carrot,beans,peas,potato,cauliflower)

Oil: 1 tbsp

Cumin seeds/Jeera: 1 tsp

Turmeric powder: a pinch

Salt: as required

Water: ½ cup

Coriander leaves: a few

Curry leaves: a few

For grinding:

Coconut: ½ cup (shredded or pieced )

Green Chilly: 2

Red Chilly: 1

Cardamom: 2

Cinnamon: ½ inch piece

Cloves: 2

Fennel seeds: ½ tsp

Ginger: 1 inch piece

Garlic: 3 nos

Roasted gram/pottukadalai: 1 ½ tsp

Preparation:

1.Grind all the ingredients mentioned under  the grinding section with a little water to a fine paste

2.Chop all the vegetables into medium sized pieces. Do not chop them very finely

Method:

1. Heat oil in a kadai, add cumin seeds.

2. Then add the chopped vegetables, turmeric powder and mix it well

3. Add a little salt, close the kadai with a lid and let it cook in a medium flame for 4 to 5 minutes.           Make sure to stir in occasionally.

4. Once the vegetables have cooked, add the grounded paste and stir it gently

5. Add sufficient water and check for salt

6. When it comes to a boil, put off the flame

7. Garnish it with curry leaves and coriander leaves, and now it is ready to be served.

Note:

1.Adjust the green chillies as per your taste.

2.Do not try to add in chilly powder into the kuruma after adding the grounded paste into the kadai, if you want the kuruma to be a little more hot. That will spoil the taste. Just slit and add in a green chilly into the gravy.

3. If you want the kuruma to be more rich, you can substitute the fried gram with few cashew nuts. Ensure to soak the cashews for 10-15 mins before grinding

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