Mixed Veg Saagu | Karnataka Style Mixed Veg Saagu
Author: Vindhya Desai
Recipe type: Breakfast
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 4 people
- 2 medium sized or 1½ Cups small diced carrots
- 1 potato or 1 Cup small diced
- 10-12 or ½ Cup finely chopped green beans
- ½ Cup shelled green peas
- ½ Cup freshly grated coconut
- 1 piece cinnamon/dalchini
- ¼ Cup huri gadale/kadale pappu/roasted gram/puthani
- 2 slit green chillies
- 1 clove garlic (optional)
- 1" piece ginger
- 4-5 curry leaves
- ½ Tsp jeera (optional)
- 1 pinch hing
- Chopped coriander
- Juice of ½ lime
- ½ Tbsp oil
- ½ Tsp mustard
- 1 broken dry red chilli
- ¼ Tsp red chilli powder
- In a pan, add ½ Cup water and bring to a boil. Add diced carrots and potatoes
- Next add chopped beans. Cover and cook the vegetables
- Once they turn a bit soft tip in green peas, cover, cook till all vegetables are soft and tender
- To make the saagu masala, add grated coconut to a mixer jar and add cinnamon
- Add green chillies, chopped ginger and garlic
- Add curry leaves and a few sprigs of coriander
- Now add in the roasted gram, salt, hing, jeera and lime juice
- With little water, grind this masala into a chutney like paste
- Once the vegetables are tender pour in the masala paste into the pan. Mix well
- Add salt to taste. Remember we had added salt while grinding masala, add salt for vegetables only
- Pour in some water to adjust consistency, boil saagu till the masala gets cooked and mixes well with vegetables
- Make tadka with oil, mustard, red chillies, red chilli powder
- Pour tadka over saagu. Add chopped coriander
- Serve hot with set dosas or chapathis
Adjust green chillies as per your taste
Fresh coconut is preferred but dry coconut/kopra can also be substituted but the change in taste will be noticeable
Other vegetables like turnip, parsnip, knol kol can also be added
Garlic can be skipped to make it a no onion no garlic recipe
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/mixed-veg-saagu/
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