
Baby Corn Stew
Baby Corn Stew is a Kerala-style coconut-milk vegetable stew (ishtu) with baby corn as the hero vegetable — gently simmered with potato, carrot, ginger, garlic, whole spices (cardamom, cinnamon) and curry-leaf coconut-oil tempering. Served with appam, idiyappam or steamed rice for a comforting Kerala meal.
Time 35 min · Serves 12 · 104 kcal · South India, Multiple States
Ingredients
Main
- Coconut Oil (Cold Pressed) (optional) (whole)
- onion — 2 piece (chopped)
- Carrot — 1 piece (chopped)
- Baby Corn — 12 piece (chopped)
- Potato — 1 piece (chopped)
- Cardamom — 4 piece (ground)
- Turmeric Powder — 0.25 tsp (ground)
- Garlic — 4 piece (chopped)
- salt (optional) (whole)
- coconut milk — 1 cup (whole)
- cinnamon stick — 1 piece (ground)
- Ginger — 1 piece (chopped)
- Red Chilli Powder (Lal Mirch) — 0.5 piece (ground)
- black pepper powder — 0.5 tsp (ground)
Tempering
- Curry Leaves (optional) (ground)
- Mustard Seeds (Black) — 0.25 tsp (whole)
- dry red chillies — 1 piece (whole)
Method
- To begin making the Baby Corn Stew recipe, wash and cut corns and carrot in small pieces.
- Also, chop the onions and dice the potatoes.
- Once everything is ready, add ginger and garlic in a mixer grinder and make a paste out of it.
- Crush cardamom, clove and cinnamon and keep them aside.
- Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a heavy bottomed pan.
- Add crushed cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and curry leaves.Cook for 30 seconds and add the onions.
- Cook till the onion turns soft and translucent.
- Now add ginger and garlic paste and cook for about 30 seconds.After 3 seconds, add all the vegetables.
- Mix, cover and let the vegetables cook well on low heat for 10 minutes.Add salt, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and black pepper powder.
- Saute for 1-2 minutes and then add thin coconut milk, cover and cook for 5 minutes more on low heat.When all the vegetables are cooked well, add thick coconut milk.
- Cook for 3 to 4 minutes on medium heat.
- Check for salt and adjust as per your taste Lastly, we will prepare the seasoning.
- Add 1 teaspoon ghee in a tadka pan.
- Add 1 dry red chilli, curry leaves, and black mustard seeds.
- Cook for about 20 to 30 seconds and add this seasoning to the curry.Serve Baby Corn Stew along with Appam and Raw Mango chutney for a weekday meal.
Common questions
- Baby Corn Stew ko English mein kya kehte hain?
- बेबी कॉर्न स्टू ko English mein Baby Corn Stew likhte hain.
- Ek plate Baby Corn Stew mein kitni calories hoti hain?
- 104 kcal per plate.
- Kitna time lagta hai?
- 35 min lagta hai — 10 min taiyari, 25 min pakana.
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