Ingredients for coconut gravy,
Toor daal-1/2 a cup
Baby carrots- 8( cut into an inch pieces)
Beans-6(cut into an inch pieces)
Peas-1/4 cup(if using dry and soaked green peas cook them along with the daal or cook it in the tempering while doing the sambar)
Coconut1/4 cup( grated)
Cumin seeds- 1 tbsp
Fresh coriander-4 strands (chopped)
Curry leaves-4
Sambar powder- 1 tbsp
Salt-1 tbsp(vary it to taste)
Red chilli powder - 1/2 -1 teaspoon
Tamarind juice- take a quarter coin sized ,mean a tablespoon of tamarind and soak it in water for an hour and take out the juice.(substitute 1/4 tbsp tamarind paste mixed with 1/4 cup of water if required)
- Cook toor daal and carrots and beans In a cooker till 3 whistles.You can also cook daal In a pan,but it will take longer time to cook.
- In a blender blend the coconut, cumin seeds, coriander ,curry leaves and sambar powder with 1/2 cup of water.
- For tempering take 2 tbsp of oil,as it heats add 1/2 tbsp of mustard seeds.When mustard seeds start spluttering add a pinch of asafoetida and 1/4 tbsp of turmeric.Add fresh peas to saute for a minute.
- Add tamarind juice to this and bring it to boil ,as it starts to bubble add the blended mix in step 2
- Add cooked toor daal along with the vegetables and 1 cup of water and salt.Add 1/2 - 1 teaspoon of red chili powder to spice this curry.
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