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Vegetable Kuruma
This is one of my most favorite side dishes. My mother makes this Kuruma really well. It is such a hot favorite in our house that all of us have atleast three helpings of this Kuruma. The preparation of this dish is time consuming, it takes about an hour to finish making this. But the taste is well worth the effort. The below recipe will serve 4 (also including second helpings 🙂 )
For the Tamil, Telugu or Hindi equivalent of the Ingredients, kindly visit the Glossary Page)
Ingredients
Carrot – 1/2 cup , diced
Beans – 1/4 cup, diced
Green Peas – 1/4 cup (If you are using Dried Green Peas soak them overnight)
Potatoes – 2 Large
Onions – 3, Thinly Sliced
Coconut – 1 cup, Grated
Cashewnut – 5 (Optional)
Kasa Kasa – 2 tsp (If you do not have Kasa Kasa then take 12 pieces of Cashewnut)
Green Chilles – 4
Tomoto – 3 Medium sized
Coriander Leaves – 1 cup
Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tsp
Lemon – 1 medium sized
Garam Masala Powder– 1 tsp
Dhaniya Powder – 1 tsp
Sombu/Somphu – 1/2 tsp
Chilli Powder – As per taste
Salt – As per taste
Oil – 2 tsp
Method of Preparation
Initial Preparation
Boil or pressure cook carrot, beans, potatoes and Green Peas till they are soft.
Mash the potatoes.
Grind and Keep Ready the following
In a dry mixie jar, grind Kasa Kasa and cashew nut into powder. Then with this powder grind coconut with a little powder so that a paste mixture is obtained. Keep aside.
Then, grind the tomatoes, green chilles and Coriander leaves into a gravy along with water.
Cooking
Heat the oil in a pan and once it heats up add Sombu to it.
After about a minute, add the onions and saute till the onions turn light golden brown.
Then add ginger garlic paste and saute for about half a minute.
Add the cooked vegetables (Carrot, beans, Green peas and mashed potatoes). Mix well.
Saute the vegetables for about 2 minutes. Then add the tomato + green chillies + coriander leaves gravy. Add water according to the quantity of the Kuruma that you require. Make sure you do not dilute it too much.
Add necessary amount of salt, chilli powder (if required), Garam Masala Powder and Dhaniya powder.
Cook till the raw smell fades out and the gravy starts to come to a boil.
Then add the Coconut + Kasa Kasa + Cashew gravy to the mixture and mix well.
Let the Kuruma boil for atleast 5 minutes.
Then switch off the stove and then add the lemon juice to the Kuruma and mix well.
Garnish if required with coriander leaves.
Combination
This goes well with plain rice, vegetable rice, chappathi, poori, upma and dosa
Idli – Steamed Rice Cakes
While browsing through google for the definition of idli, I found a particularly interesting page on Wikipedia, which has nice mouthwatering photographs of idlis with side dishes and a history behind idlis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idli
Idlis are the staple breakfast diet of the majority of the South Indians. And there are many varieties of idlis and the method of preparation of even the same variety differs from people to people. Here I shall give you the types of idlis which my mother makes along with the side dishes which go well with them. Also I shall give you some of our household favorites made with leftover idlis.
Hope you will enjoy this as much as we have done it.
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