Thursday, April 22, 2010

potato vegetable stew


This recipe serves four.

Ingredients:
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  • Potatoes,cooked and mashed - 4 medium sized
  • carrot,chopped finely - 1 medium sized
  • onion,chopped finely - 1 large
  • Peas - 1 hand ful
  • coconut milk - 100 grams
  • Salt to taste
  • coconut oil - 2 tablespoon
  • refined oil - 1 tablespoon
  • curry leaves - few
  • ginger,finely chopped and crushed - 1 1/2 table spoon
  • Green chillies ,(according to taste) - 2 to 4
Method:
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  • Pressure cook the potatoes.Peel off the skin ,add salt and mash smoothly without lumps.
  • Heat a kadai and add refined oil.Add onion and saute for 3 min.
  • Add carrots,ginger,green chillies and peas and saute for 2 sec.Pour water so that the veggies are just immersed and cook covered for 5 to 10 min till the veggies are cooked.
  • Now add mashed potatoes to it and little water as required to maintain the gravy consistency.
  • Cook on medium flame for 3 to 4 min and pour the coconut milk to it.
Extracting coconut milk at home
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Grind the shredded coconut with little water in a mixie and extract the milk out of it using a strainer.Keep grinding and extracting with little water ,say 2 to 3 times depending on the coconut.Usually the first two extracts are preferred.
  • Do not cook for a long time after adding coconut milk.Just when its about to boil,switch off the flame.
  • Add curry leaves and garnish with coconut oil.
Yummy stew is ready.Mix well and serve with appam.It goes well with sambar sadam too.


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