The third post for Blogging Marathon is a side dish- A mixed Vegetable Kurma.I have already posted a Kurma recipe long back .This one is from Sanjeev Kapoor’s No Oil Vegetarian Cooking.The book review is posted here. It is a nice book with yummy and healthy recipes that are prepared without oil. If you are interested, click this amazon.com link No-Oil Vegetarian Cooking
I used:
Mixed vegetables- 2 cups, chopped
[I used carrots, peas, beans,cauliflower,potato, capsicum]
Onion- 1,large chopped
Tomato- 1,large ,pureed
Tamarind pulp- 1 teaspoon
Garam masala- 1 teaspoon
Curry leaves a few
Coconut milk – 1/2 cup
Salt to taste
For masala paste
Grated coconut – 5 tablespoons
Garlic- 5 cloves
Ginger – 1″ piece
Red chillies -2
Coriander seeds- 1 tablespoon
Cumin seeds- 1 teasoon
Poppy seeds- 2 teaspoons
Fennel seeds- 1/2 teaspoon
Coriander leaves to garnish.
- Parboil the vegetables on the stove or microwave the vegetables.
- Heat a non stick pan and roast the ingredients under masala paste till light brown. Let it cool.
- Grind to a paste adding a little water. Keep aside.
- Heat a nonstick pan and add onion and saute till translucent.
- Add curry leaves and masala paste.Add 1/2 cup water amd bring to boil.
- Put in the tamarind pulp, boiled vegetables, tomato puree,salt and bring to boil.
- Add more water if you want the gravy to be watery. I added around 1 cup.
- Simmer till the gravy thickens a bit.
- Add the coconut milk and garam masala.Stir well and remove from heat.
Serve garnished with coriander leaves.
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Bon Appetit…
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Delicious platter. I always use green chillies while grinding for kurma. Should try with red chillies sometime.
Very nice preparation. Vgetable kurma looks awesome..
nice n yummy kurma..looks delicious..
Woww.. looks so tempting and perfect.. thanks for the lovely recipe 🙂
Super good one… I too make a no oil one occasionally!
oil free kurma, that's a cool idea!!
Must be a yummy sidedish!
Must be a yummy sidedish!
Must be a yummy sidedish!
oh..this is so easy n really nice recipe..:P
Tasty Appetite
Very interesting kurma PJ..
Kurma without oil sounds interesting…
like the idea that it has no oil in it 🙂
Kurma looks yum-o! I wonder how it tastes without any oil..
I too have this book , PJ ! and yes, its really no oil cooking 🙂 looks yum with the rotis on the side !
Kalyani
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That's a very delicious side dish.. Looks yumm.
PJ,
Kurma looks great..nice recipe and clicks..
Should try the no oil version..
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Rujuta
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