Monday, January 1, 2007

Who says vegetables are for cows?


Love them, hate them but you can’t really ignore them! And how many times have you cringed at the thought of that concoction called – Mixed Vegetable Curry that any self respecting restaurant doles out. But here is a recipe, also known as Sindhi Kadi (sans any curd though) which is rather wholesome and tastes nice too!

Here is the recipe for all of you.

Mixed Vegetable with Besan Curry

Ingredients
Beans - 5 or 6 numbers
Cauliflower – 4 or 5 flowers pieces
Peas – little
Red Pumpkin – a small bit
Potato – 1
Tomato -1
Besan – 1 tablespoon
Ghee – 1 tea spoon
Oil – 2 tea spoon
One table spoon tamarind pulp
Red Chiili Powder – 1 tablespoon
Salt to taste
Dhania Powder – 1 teaspoon
Haldi Powder a pinch


Method
Cut all the vegetables into small rectangle slices. In a pressure pan, heat oil and ghee, roast the besan in it. Now add all the vegetables including tomato and roast it for a while. Add the vegetables in order of time that they require for cooking. Now add 2 glasses of water to it. Also add the spices and seasoning viz. haldi, salt, chilli powder, dhania powder and tamarind pulp. Pressure cook till one whistle sound and switch it off. Garnish with coriander leaves and is best served with rice. Though chapatti fine too.
On that healthy note, here is to a good year and great health!