Vegetable Stew

This is a very simple dish .This delicately flavored vegetable stew that goes well with Appam or thick slices of bread, Idiappam and Puttu. 

Ingredients

Carrot                      – 1 no (Cubed)

Potato                           – 2 no (Cubed)

Green Peas                – ½ cup

Ginger Paste                – 1 tsp

Green Chilies            – 4 no (Sliced)

Curry leaves              – few

Coconut milk tin – 1 ½ tin

Coconut oil – 1tsp

Salt to taste

 Crushed  Spices:

Whole black pepper – 1/2 tsp
Cinnamon – 2 piece
Cloves – 3 no
Cardamom – 3 no

Method: 

• Take a ½ tin coconut milk and add ½ cup water and make a thin coconut milk. Keep aside.
• Heat a oil in a deep bottom pan & splutter the crushed spices. Add, ginger paste, and curry leaves & green chili and sauté for a few minutes.  
•  Add the cubed vegetables & combine well and add a thin coconut milk & salt bring to boil, reduce heat; simmer and cook till vegetables are tender.
• Add thick coconut milk and cook for 5 more minutes & remove from fire. Garnish with coriander leaves.
• Serve hot with Appam, Puttu .

Tip:

•  If you want to make the gravy very thick and tastier, you can add cashew paste (soak the cashews and grind and make a cashew paste) to the coconut milk .

Vegetable Stew