Velan's Cuisine Extraordinaire

[mappi]

Hi Suvai,

Am doing fine, thanks for the enquiries. How about you ? (And hi Nov & everyone)

Made this vegetable kurma with only chilli powder, cumin powder & corriander powder (no photos)

1/ Take a cup of beans, carrot, cauliflower, choped to tiny cubes of potatoes, small peas (a cup is enough as when cooked they grow in size). Half cook them all.

2/ Chopped onions, tomatoes, 1 teaspoo ginger garlic paste.

3/ 2 bay leaves (biriyani leaves), 3 cloves, 3 cardamon, mid size cinamon stick, star anis, a pinch of anis grains & (green chilli optional)

4/ 2 tablespoon curd & 1/2 cup milk

5/ 1/2 teaspoon chilli powder (or as you want the hotness to be), 1 teasoon cummin powder, 1 tablespoon corriandre powder & a pinch of turmeric powder

6/ 1/2 teaspoon poppy seeds, 1 table spoon Kadalai paruppu (I stopped using cashew nuts) & 1/2 cup grated coconut (add more if you like)

7/ Grind "ITEM 6" into a thick paste

8/ Add ghee or oil, fry the spices "ITEM 3" (one by one, lastly add anis grains)

9/ Fry onions and then ginger garlic paste. Add tomatoes. Fry from a minute and then add all the spices "ITEM 5". Fry for a minute.

10/ Add the half cooked vegetatbles "ITEM 1". Stir well. Then add 2 wups of water (or more if you want it too gravy) and salt to taste.

11/ Bring it to a boil, and then add the coconut paste "ITEM 6". Stir well and let it boil for 5 minutes

12/ Add milk and cured "ITEM 4"

13/ boil it for about 10 minutes. Add salt and water if needed. No need to cover it with a lid.

14/ If you want it thick, let it boil for until there is no water (attention not to get it burnt at the bottom of the vessel). If you need it gravy, the dish is ready.

[suvai]

Oh have to mention that I thought nov ngovvv started his own business selling achu muruku plus snacks with the poster he made and posted in pp