VEGETABLE STEW

Ingredients : Potato- 1 cup

                     Cauliflower – 1 cup

                     Carrot – 1 cup

                     Green peas – ½ cup

                     Onion – 1 no

                     Green chillies – 5 nos

                     Ginger –2 tsp

                     Coconut milk powder- 4 tsp/ Plain milk – 1 cup

                     Curry leaves- 2 strands

                     Fennel seeds – 1tsp

                     Sugar – 2tsp

                     Coconut oil – 2tsp

                     Cumin seeds – 1 tsp

                     Bay Leaves – 2/3 nos

                     Salt to taste

Ingredients to Grind – Coconut scraped– 1 cup

                                     Fennel seeds -2 tsp

                                     Cinnamon(1inch pcs) - 2 nos

                                     Cloves – 3 nos

                                     Javitri – 5 strands

                                     Green Cardamon - 1 no

Method : Peel the potato and carrot and cut them to 1 cm cubes.Cut the cauliflower to small florets.

Slice the onion into 1 cm thin pieces. Slit the green chilles into 2 pieces and cut to halves, finely chop the ginger. Add all the above in a vessel and pressure cook it .

In a blender add all the ingredients to grind. Make a coarse paste.

In a pan add oil and put the Fennel seeds , Cumin Seeds, curry leaves .

Once they flutter add the Vegetables from the pressure cooker . Now add the not so fine paste made with coconut. Mix well and add salt and sugar and bring to boil.

Once the mixture is boiling, lower the fire and add the coconut milk / plain milk. The consistency of the stew should be of semi solid. Now just bring to boil otherwise the milk will curdle. If the Stew is watery, mix Cornflour 1 tsp with water and add this to the stew. This will thicken up. 

Remove from fire. Add 2 tsp of Coconut oil over the mixture. This give a good smell. Hot piping Vegetable stew is ready.

Can be eaten with Chappati, Idiappam, Appam