Monday, August 15, 2016

Vegetable saagu


Ingredients:

Green beans ( 15 to 20) - 1/2 cup 
Carrots( around 2 )  - 1/2 cup 
Potato - 1/2 cup ( keep the cut potatoes in water ( 1 small medium size))
Onion (1 small onion) - 3/4 cup 
Fresh / soaked peas - 1/2 cup 
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tbsp
Few curry leaves
Oil - 2 tbsp
Hing - 1/4 tbsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tbsp
Fresh/frozen coconut - 1/2 cup
fried gram dal/hurigadale/pottu kadalai - 1 1/2 tbsp
Poppy seeds /khus khus/gasagase - 2 tbsp
Green chillies - 4
Cilantro/coriander leaves - 1/4 cup (finely chopped)
Water - 4 cups


Method:

1) Boil 2 cups of water.
2) Add all the chopped vegetables to the boiling water. Then add salt, turmeric powder, and curry leaves, and mix well.
3) Let it boil on medium heat for 10 minutes or until the peas and beans become tender.
4) Grind coconut, fried gram dal, poppy seeds, green chillies, coriander leaves and a little bit of onion into a fine paste. Add enough water to grind.
5) Add this paste to the partially cooked vegetables.
6) Let it cook for another 8 to 10 minutes on medium low heat. Keep stirring constantly.
7) In another pan, add 2 tsp oil in ladle on medium heat.
8) Once it is hot enough, add hing and mustard seeds,  curry leaves. 
9) Add this to thee boiling saagu and turn off the heat.

Pour it on the saagu.

Note:

1) Soak ¼ cup dried peas 3 to 4 hours,which yields 1/2 cup soaked peas.
2) Vegetables can be more or less than 1/2 cup.

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