Serving: 4 to 6 | Type: Kuzhambu | speciality
Ingredients:
All Vegetables like your wish | -4 to 6 cups |
Tamarind | -medium lemon size |
Turmeric | -¼ tsp |
Brown sugar | -1tsp |
Salt | -to taste |
Boiled chana and peanut | -½ cup (optional) |
Dry Roast and Powder:1
Raw Rice | -1tbsp |
Sesame seeds | -1tbsp |
Roast and powder: 2
Oil | -1 tbsp |
Red Chili | -8 to 10 |
Coriander Seeds | -2 ½ tbsp |
Channa,Tur, Dhal | -1 tbsp each |
Fenugreek Seeds | -10 |
Grind with Water:
Grated Coconut | -3tbsp |
Ground masala powder | -½ of that powder (Number -2) |
Seasoning:
Coconut Oil | -2 tbsp |
Mustard seeds | -1tsp |
Red chili | –2 |
Asefotida | –¼ tsp |
Grated Coconut | –2tbsp |
Curry Leaves | –Few |
Method:
- Wash and cut the vegetables to medium size. ( Vegetables like : Kathirikkai, Parangikai, Carrot, Vazhakkai, Avarakkai, Sweet Potato, Murungakkai, Mochai)
- Boil with salt, turmeric and tamarind pulp until it is cooked half-way.
- In meantime, make Powder 1:
- Take a pan and dry roast the ingredients for Powder 1, grind it in a mixie into a fine powder and keep it aside.
- Next make Powder 2:
- Heat a pan with oil, roast the ingredients for Powder 2 until it gets toasted.
- Then powder it in a mixie and divide into two proportion and keep it aside.
- Take one portion of the Powder 2, add coconut and little water and grind it into a paste and keep it aside.
- Next take a pan heat with coconut oil, add seasonings (but add the coconut at the very end) fry without burning and keep it aside.
- After the vegetable have cooked half-way through, add grounded coconut paste into it and cook it for a few minutes.
- Then add remaining of Powder 2 and mix it well.
- Next add the add boiled chana and peanut to the half-cooked vegetables.(optional)
- Now add brown sugar, mix well and cook it for 1 more minute.
- Then add the grounded Powder 1, mix well to avoid any lumps, and cook it for few minutes.
- Finally after the vegetable have completely cooked, add the seasoning and mix well.
- Turn off the stove and serve hot.
- Serve with white rice.
- Go well with Thiruvathirai Kali.