Vegetable Stew

Vegetable Stew

Ingredients :

• Carrot : 1
• Potato : 1
• Green Peas : ½ cup
• Nutmeg (finely sliced) : ½ tsp
• Onion finely sliced : 1
• Green chilly (slit) : 5
• Crushed Ginger : 1 tbsp
• Crushed garlic : 1 tbsp
• Cardamom : 3 nos
• Powdered black pepper : 1 tsp
• Cinnamon : 1 piece
• Cloves : 3 nos
• Thin coconut milk :1½ cup
• Thick coconut milk : ½ cup
• Curry leaves : 1 sprig
• Salt : as needed
• Butter or coconut and oil : 2 tbsp

Vegetable stew preparation​

1. Slice the vegetables into cubes of 1/2 inches and clean them well.
2. In a deep bottom frying pan, heat the butter or coconut oil.
3. Add the onions to it and saute it till the onions become transparent.
4. When the onions become transparent splutter the crushed spices.
5. Add the ginger, garlic, curry leaves and the green chillies and saute it for a few more minutes.
6. Add the sliced vegetables and saute well.
7. Now add the thin (second) coconut milk, salt and bring it to boil
8. Lower the flame, cover and cook it till vegetables are soft. This will take around ten minutes time.
9. Now add the thick coconut milk (first) and cook for another five more minutes.
10. Remove from stove and transfer it into a serving bowl.
11. Garnish with curry leaves fried in coconut oil or ghee.
12. You can serve this vegetable stew with chapathis, pathiris, puris, appams, rice or bread.

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