Vegetable Kurma

One of my all time favorite dishes is the mouth watering, flavory and creamy Vegetable Kurma and even to this day, I like it the best when my mom prepares it!  This coconut based vegetable gravy – vegetable kurma, makes you lick your fingers from the very first bite through to the last! My mouth started watering again, when I penned it down here and lol! I have to cook it again!

Other Coconut Based curries that might interest you :

Bendekai Kairasa

Apple Menaskai

Coconut Lemon Grass Soup

Total Time: 40 minutes

Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Cooking Time: 25 minutes

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

Veggies (Beans, beetroot, potato, carrot, green peas) : Chopped
Onion: 1 large( Finely chopped)
Tomato: 2 medium
Cinnamon: 1 inch
Cloves: 3
Turmeric powder: 1 tsp.
Red chilli: 2
Poppy seeds: 0.5 tsp.
Coriander: 1 tsp.
Garlic cloves: 2
Cashew: 3-4
Grated coconut: 0.5 cup
Jaggery: little
Salt to taste
Coriander leaves : little

Method:

• Boil the chopped veggies with little salt and jaggery (with just enough water)
• In a pan, add ghee and fry diced garlic and chopped onion until onion turns transclucent
• Add tomato to it and continue frying till tomatoes turn mushy
• Next, Add turmeric powder and give it a mix
• Add the boiled veggies with the broth (as we had boiled the veggies with just enough water to cover them)
• Grind all the masala ingredients together (except coriander leaves). In the second round, add the coconut and make a smooth paste. In the last round, add the coriander leaves. Add the paste to the above.  Adjust with salt. Mix and bring it to boil.
• Garnish with coriander leaves before serving

Kurma goes well with hot chapathis, parathas, pooris and even rice!

Vegetable Kurma Stories:

During our school and college days, my mom used to ensure that our lunch boxes are not repeated often. Though a South Indian, she used to cook North Indian food equally good.

Though the chapathis were very frequent at home, the accompaniments would always differ. They would be North Indian and South Indian in equal measures!

Vegetable kurma is my all time favorite dish to go with Chapathi and the day my mom would send this in the box, it would get over in no time! Along with me, my friends in the class would eagerly await too!!

Recentlz, I happened to prepare this vegetable korma when a German friend of mine came home for lunch. She had a special request – Poori and I served it with her favorite coconut sauce, with some veggies and spices – Vegetable Korma and she was literally licking her fingers! She was surprised to find that Indian food with spices need not necessarily be ‘Hot and spicy’.