Goan Saraswat Khatkhate
Mixed vegetable and lentil stew with coconut and kokum. Saraswat Brahmin festival dish at Ganesh Chaturthi.
Ingredients
- salt — 8 g
- Water — 800 g
- Kokum — 10 g
- Jaggery — 15 g
- Raw Banana (Vazhakkai) — 150 g
- suran — 150 g
- Turmeric Powder — 2 g
- dry red chillies — 8 g
- Toor Dal — 100 g
- Fresh Coconut — 150 g
- Corn/Maize (fresh) — 150 g
- Triphal (Sun-Dried Tirphal - Konkan Spice) — 3 g
- Drumstick — 150 g
- Sweet Potato — 150 g
- Yellow Pumpkin — 150 g
Method
- Wash toor dal. Pressure cook with turmeric and water for 3 whistles.
- Cut all vegetables into big chunks. Cut corn into rounds.
- Boil corn, yam and drumstick in water for 10 minutes.
- Add sweet potato, raw banana and pumpkin. Cook till just soft.
- Grind coconut and red chillies with little water into a coarse paste.
- Add cooked dal, coconut paste, kokum, jaggery and salt to the vegetables.
- Crush tirphal and add. Simmer for 10 minutes till thick.
- Serve hot with rice.
Common questions
- How many calories in one plate of Goan Saraswat Khatkhate?
- 295 kcal per plate.
- How much cooking time?
- 55 min — 20 min prep, 35 min cooking.