Parotta stall style Vegetable Kurma Recipe, a simple kurma made with coconut, onion and cashew mixture. The gravy is the replica of kurma, which we had from our nearby street side fast food stall. A good dish to be paired up with Roti / Parotta / Idiyappam / Appam.
Chennai streets are filled with numerous fast food stalls. You can find one of them for every 4-5 shops in a row. They range from very tiny to big restaurant's size. The cooks occupy the frontage of the eatery, cooking in high flamed hot stoves. Not to find much room for sitting for having food. Take away for dining, is probably everyone's choice.
The stalls attract the crowd by super flavored food. So, undoubtedly, this gravy is also highly aromatic, which stays in the fingers even after washing them. The one and only important tips for this recipe are to remove the gravy from fire only after the coriander powder gets completely cooked.
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How to make Vegetable Kurma
1. Heat 2 tbsp cooking oil in a pan. Add chopped onion and cashews. Saute for about 2 to 3 minutes until onion slices turns pink and translucent.
2. Once onion turned soft, remove from fire and keep it aside, to bring down to the room temperature.
3. Chop veggies of your choice. I went with potatoes, Carrots, Green peas and spring beans. Slice coconut into fine pieces, if you are having fresh coconut / grated coconut / frozen coconut/coconut powder you can use any one of them, whatever you have it handy.
4. Grind kept aside onion and cashew mixture along with coconut slices. Grind till it turns into a very fine paste. Keep aside.
5. Bring a cup of water to boil and add chopped veggies. Cover the lid and cook. Cook until the veggies have completely cooked.
6. Meanwhile, heat tablespoon of oil in a pan cumin seeds followed by bay leaves, a small cinnamon stick, 4 cloves. Fry until all spices turn golden brown in color. At this stage, all the spices start leaving out an exotic aroma in the kitchen.
7. Simmer flame, add chopped garlic, slitted green chilies, and few curry leaves. Saute for less than a minute, until green chilies started showing little discoloration.
8. Well, now its the time to add the ground onion and cashew mixture.
9. Add a teaspoon of coriander powder and a quarter teaspoon of cumin powder. Continue sauteing it in simmer to medium flame, until the gravy starts leaving out its raw smell.
10. Add chopped veggies and cover the lid cook for about 5 minutes.
Garnish with coriander leaves and serve Vegetable Kurma hot with Roti/ Chapathi/ Idiyappam/ Appam.
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Vegetable Kurma Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 tsp vegetable oil or as required
- 1 onion medium size
- 3 tbsp cashew nuts
- 1 cup mixed vegetables Chopped & including green peas, carrots, potatoes
- 5 tbsp coconut slices
- 1 cup water
- 1 bay leaves
- 1 cinnamon
- 1 tsp Kalpasi
- 3 cloves
- 1 tbsp garlic chopped
- 3 green chili / serrano pepper
- ½ tsp coriander powder
- ¼ tsp cumin powder
- 1 tsp salt or as required
- 4 tbsp cilantro chopped & for garnishing
Instructions
- Heat 2 tbsp vegetable oil in a pan. Add chopped onion and cashews. Saute for about 2 to 3 minutes until onion slices turns pink and translucent.
- Once onion turned soft, remove from fire and keep it aside, to bring down to the room temperature.
- Chop veggies of your choice. I went with potatoes, Carrots, Green peas and spring beans. Slice coconut into fine pieces, if you are having fresh coconut / grated coconut / frozen coconut/coconut powder you can use any one of them, whatever you have it handy.
- Grind kept aside onion and cashew mixture along with coconut slices. Grind till it turns into a very fine paste. Keep aside.
- Bring a cup of water to boil and add chopped veggies. Cover the lid and cook. Cook until the veggies have completely cooked.
- Meanwhile, heat tablespoon of vegetable oil in a pan, add cumin seeds followed by bay leaves, a small cinnamon stick, 4 cloves. Fry until all spices turn golden brown in color. At this stage, all the spices start leaving out an exotic aroma in the kitchen.
- In low heat, add chopped garlic, slitted green chili, and few curry leaves. Saute for less than a minute, until green chilies started showing little discoloration.
- Well, now its the time to add the ground onion and cashew mixture.
- Add a teaspoon of coriander powder and a quarter teaspoon of cumin powder. Continue sauteing it in simmer to medium flame, until the gravy starts leaving out its raw smell.
- Add chopped veggies and cover the lid cook for about 5 minutes. Adjust water according to your desired consistency.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.
Nutrition
Serving Suggestions of Parotta Stall style Vegetable Kurma:
1. Serve hot as a side dish with Indian flat bread like Roti /Paratha /Pulka etc.,
2. It also tastes good with South Indian delicacies like Appam, Idiyappam, dosa etc.,
Tips and Variations Vegetable Kurma Recipe:
1. Need to be careful with coriander powder, as uncooked coriander powder can make the dish less appetite. So cook it completely until the coriander powder gets cook completely blend with the gravy.
2.Fresh coriander powder has the strong flavor. Sometimes it may take few more minutes to get cooked than the prescribed minutes in this recipe.
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