Greetings Vegans ! Hope all of you are having a wonderful time trying and preparing new dishes. How about trying a veggie dish which goes well with rice, pickle and Indian pappad.
Fine, join me for this wonderful recipe. This is a traditional cuisine which is compulsory for lunch (rice), in every marriages and festivals, named Onam and Vishu here in my state*.
INGREDIENTS REQUIRED:
Vegetables required
- Drumsticks - 3
- Jackfruit seeds - 15
- Snake guard - 1 medium sized
- Potato - 2
- Onion - 1
- Water - 1 glass
Note: You can add more veggies like plantain, carrot, yam etc.
For Coconut mixture
- Grated Coconut - 1/2 Coconut of one full
- Garlic - 3 pods
- Cumin - 1/2 tsp
- Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
- Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
- Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
- Fresh Curry leaves - a handfull
- Salt - to taste
- Coconut oil - 2 table spoon
METHOD OF PREPARATION:
STEP - 1
Clean all the vetables in water by adding a little rock salt. Drain them in a strainer for atleast 30 min. Later, cut all the vegetables thinly, upto 2 cms in length. It has to be cut evenly (just that it will look nice when served) and placed in a wide open thick bottomed vessel.
STEP - 2
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Coarsely grind the coconut along with garlic, cumin, turmeric, coriander and chilli powder by adding half a glass of water.
STEP - 3
Mix the veggies along with the grinded coconut mixture and add the remaining water to it. Use your clean hands to mix them. Add few curry leaves and salt as per your your taste.
STEP - 4
Once mixed, place them on stove. When it starts boiling, simmer and keep for just 10 minutes. Every 2 minutes just saute them with a ladle. Close the lid. After 10 min, switch off the stove and now add 2 tbsp of coconut oil and some curry leaves on top of the cooked recipe. Now keep the lid closed for few minutes, so that the flavour and aroma retains in it for a while.
After 2 minutes, when you open the lid you can feel the aroma of the cooked veggies and coconut oil spreading across the room.
If you try this recipe at your home, Iam sure you will not be disappointed and the taste of mixed veggies will force you to prepare again and again.
Hope you enjoyed my share. Thankyou for your patient visit. The photos are captured from my Samsung Galaxy A50 and the step by step instructions are typed to the best of my knowledge.
Wishing you a bright week ahead.