It’s always good to have a lot of gravy based recipes in your cooking repertoire. They work really well with chapathis and rotis and they just bring your full menu together. Mixed Veg gravies like saagu or this mixed veg kurma, Karnataka style are delicious gravies.
Lip smacking mixed veg kurma has an aromatic coconut based masala blend with subtle spices. It’s creamy and has the goodness of all the veggies like beans, carrots and green peas. I also served the leftovers with whole wheat puris and kesar elaichi shrikhand!
You can adjust the spices as per your taste and make the mixed veg kurma as hot and spicy as you want. Personally though I feel it should be subtle and the aroma should come through. Try more gravies from FOI, Seemebadanekayi saagu, peas kurma etc. More mixed veg recipes from FOI.
Mixed Veg Kurma | Vegetable Kurma | Gravy Recipes
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A great accompaniment for rotis and chapathis, mixed veg kurma in a coconut based gravy
Author: Vindhya Desai
Recipe type: Lunch
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 4-5 people
Ingredients
To grind to a paste:
- ½ Tsp sompu/fennel
- 2 laung, 1 elaichi
- 1" cinnamon
- ¼ Cup grated coconut
- 7-8 cashews
- ¼ Cup puthani/fried gram/hurigadale
- 1 Tbsp gasa gase
- 1 green chilli
- 1" ginger
- 1 clove garlic
- ½ Tsp jeera
- ½ Tsp kalluppu/sea salt
Mixed vegetables:
- 2 carrots
- 5-6 baby corn
- 7-8 beans
- 1 Cup broccoli or cauliflower florets (blanched in boiling water)
- 1 potato
- ½ Cup green peas
- ½ capcisum
- 1 chopped onion
- 2 sliced spring onions
- 1 chopped tomato
For masala:
- 1 Tbsp oil
- ¼ Tsp jeera
- 2 bay leaves
- ¼ Cup water
- ¼ Tsp red chilli powder
- ½ Tsp garam masala
- 2 Tbsp yogurt
- ½ Tsp kasuri methi
- Chopped coriander
Method
- Keep all the whole garam masala together
- Soak cashews in little water
- In a mixer jar, add grated coconut, 1 sliced green chilli, chopped garlic, ginger
- Tip in the whole garam masala
- Add sea salt and gasa-gase
- Next add soaked and drained cashews, fried gram/hurigadale and jeera
- Grind into a chutney, this is the ground masala, keep aside
- Clean, wash and blanch broccoli/cauliflower in boiling water for a minute
- In another vessel, boil water, add chopped vegetables, beans, carrot, potato and baby corn and boil till soft
- In another pan, add oil, add jeera and fry bay leaf
- Next add chopped onions and saute
- Add spring onion whites, capsicum and saute well
- Once capsicum and onions turn soft, add chopped tomato and saute till soft and mushy
- Add the ground chutney masala and mix well
- Fry well till raw smell disappears
- Add little water to adjust consistency
- Sprinkle red chilli powder and garam masala powder
- Lower the flame and whisk in yogurt
- Now add cooked vegetables and green peas, simmer
- Sprinkle crushed kasuri methi and mix well
- Lastly garnish with sliced spring onion greens and chopped coriander
- Serve hot with poori/roti or chapathis
Notes
Use any kind of vegetables, knol-kol, turnip etc
Adjust spiciness as per your taste, reduce chillies if kids are eating
Omit garlic if you want
Adjust spiciness as per your taste, reduce chillies if kids are eating
Omit garlic if you want
Mixed Veg Kurma Stepwise:
Keep all the whole garam masala together
Soak cashews in little water
In a mixer jar, add grated coconut, 1 sliced green chilli, chopped garlic, ginger
Tip in the whole garam masala
Add sea salt and gasa-gase
Next add soaked and drained cashews, fried gram/hurigadale and jeera
Grind into a chutney, this is the ground masala, keep aside
Clean, wash and blanch broccoli/cauliflower in boiling water for a minute
In another vessel, boil water, add chopped vegetables, beans, carrot, potato and baby corn and boil till soft
In another pan, add oil, add jeera and fry bay leaf
Next add chopped onions and saute
Add spring onion whites, capsicum and saute well
Once capsicum and onions turn soft, add chopped tomato and saute till soft and mushy
Add the ground chutney masala and mix well
Fry well till raw smell disappears
Add little water to adjust consistency
Sprinkle red chilli powder and garam masala powder
Lower the flame and whisk in yogurt
Now add cooked vegetables and green peas, simmer
Sprinkle crushed kasuri methi and mix well
Lastly garnish with sliced spring onion greens and chopped coriander
Serve hot with poori/roti or chapathis
