Mixed Vegetable Kurma

This is a vegetarians bliss. It the most commonly prepared of all vegetarian recipes and it tastes just awesome with chappathis and rotis. Almost any vegetable can be included in its recipe. So it is a very tasty, healthy and easy to prepare recipe.

Ingredients

Vegetables - 1 and 1/4 cup(I used a combination of carrots, cauliflower, beans, peas and potato)
Onion - 1 medium sized
Tomato - 1 medium sized
Ginger Garlic paste - 2 tsp
Garam masala powder - 1 tsp
Red Chilli powder - 2 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Curd - 2 tsp
Coriander leaves - 1/2 tbsp
Salt - to taste

To grind to a paste:
Fresh grated coconut - 1/2 cup
Cashews - 4
Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
Green Chillies - 2
Cloves - 2
Cinnamon - 1/2 inch piece
Cardamom - 1

To temper:
Oil - 1 tbsp
Bayleaf - 1
Curry leaves - few

Method

First grind the ingredients listed under 'to grind' with little water to a fine paste, Set aside. Chop the vegetables and rinse it well.

Parboil the vegetables(just half cooked) along with little salt,set aside. Heat oil in a kadai - add the items under 'to temper' then add ginger garlic paste followed by onion,saute well until slightly browned.

Then add chopped tomatoes fry until mushy and the raw smell leaves. Then add red chilli powder, coriander powder,garam masala powder and fry for 2mins for the masala powders to blend well.

Then add the coconut paste, 3/4 to 1 cup water and allow it to boil for 5mins in low flame until raw smell leaves. Then add the veggies,required salt and simmer.

Simmer and allow it to boil till you get a thick kurma consistency.If you are adding curd add it at this stage. Add chopped coriander leaves.
Serve it hot with rotis.