Vegetable stew

This is famous Kerala Recipe. Few months before only I learned this recipe and everyone loves it very much. You can make this with combination of vegetables we use for kuruma or only with potato. Since I used black pepper a lot instead of green chillies white colour slightly changed. To have perfect eye catching stew, you can use white pepper, it will give attractive white colour to the stew.

 Ingredients

Onion - 1 finely chopped

Ginger - 1 inch piece

Garlic - 3 cloves

Green chilli -2

Vegetables - mix of carrot, beans, potato, cauliflower, peas or potato alone

Pepper powder - 1 tsp

Thin coconut milk – as required

Thick coconut milk – as required

Salt as required

Oil - 1 tsp

Bay leaf - one pinch

Cinnamon - one pinch

Cloves - 2

Coconut oil - 1 tsp

Curry leaves - 5 to 10

 

Method

Prepare coconut milk from the coconut. Keep the first extracted thick milk separate. Add more water and extract thin milk and keep it aside. Cut all the vegetables lengthwise or cube.

Put kadai in the stove, add oil, season with cloves, bay leaf, cinnamon, then add onion and sauté till it turns in to pink. Then add green chillies, finely chopped ginger and garlic, fry for two minutes, the add all the vegetables and sauté for few minutes. Then add pepper powder and then pour the thin coconut milk and cook the vegetables till it become so soft. Then add thick coconut milk and heat, but do not boil it.  Then decorate it with curry leaves sauted in coconut oil. It will give good flavour to the stew.

Serve hot with idiyappam or appam or chappathi. Healthy food for kids.

I have never tasted kerala stew, so if there is any suggestions, may be posted here.

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