Simple Vegetable Kuruma

One more recipe to my quick samayal list. This comes handy when you want to make a tasty and quick side dish for roti or paratha. Simple but nutritious too. No more blah blah. Here comes the recipe.

Ingredients:
Mixed vegetables - 2 cups (I used beans, carrot, potato and capsicum)
Onion - 1 thinly sliced
Tomato - 1 roughly chopped
Garlic - 5 gloves
Ginger - 1 inch piece
Green chilly - 1 or 2
Sambar / red chilli powder - 2 1 tbsp
Whole spices - bayleaf, saunf, aniseed, cardamom and cloves
Coriander leaves - to garnish
Salt and oil as needed

To grind to a paste:
Cocunut - 2 tbsp
Cashewnuts - 6

Method:

1. Heat oil in a vessel and add the whole spices.
2. Crush the ginger, garlic and green chilli into a paste
3. Once the oil gets heated, add the paste and let it cook till the raw smell goes off.
4. After that add all the vegetables along with onion and tomato and saute for few mins.
5. Close and cook the vegetables for 10 mins or till its done.
6. Then add the sambar or chilli powder along with salt and let it cook again for another 10 mins.
7. Then add the smooth cocunut cashew paste to the vegetables along with water and let it boil for another 5 mins.
8. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves