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45 min — 20 min prep, 25 min cooking.

Brahmin-Style Vegetable Kurma (South Indian Coconut Vegetable Curry)

Name: Brahmin-Style Vegetable Kurma (South Indian Coconut Vegetable Curry)
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Tamil Nadu Indian
Ingredients: 1piece cinnamon stick; 19.5g Chana Dal; salt; 3g Kalonji; 5piece Coriander Leaves; 1piece green chillies; 300g Potato; 1piece Ginger; 2piece Carrot; Sunflower Oil; 10g Tamarind (Block); 1tsp Turmeric Powder; 0.5cup Fresh Coconut; 100g green beans; 1tsp Mustard Seeds (Black); 1tsp Cumin Seeds

Brahmin-Style Vegetable Kurma is a South Indian coconut-based mixed vegetable curry where potatoes, carrot, and green beans are simmered in a freshly ground coconut, gram dal, tamarind, ginger, and green chilli masala paste. Tempered with mustard seeds, kalonji, cinnamon, and cumin in oil, without onion-garlic. Lightly tangy-sweet-spicy, best served with poori, dosa, idli, or steamed rice.

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Time 45 min · Serves 5 · 139 kcal · South India, Tamil Nadu

Ingredients

Main

cinnamon stick — 1 piece (ground)
Chana Dal — 19.5 g (roasted)
salt (optional) (whole)
Kalonji — 3 g (ground)
Coriander Leaves — 5 piece (ground)
green chillies — 1 piece (chopped)
Potato — 300 g (chopped)
Ginger — 1 piece (chopped)
Carrot — 2 piece (chopped)
Sunflower Oil (optional) (whole)
Tamarind (Block) — 10 g (whole)
Turmeric Powder — 1 tsp (ground)
Fresh Coconut — 0.5 cup (whole)
green beans — 100 g (chopped)

Tempering

Mustard Seeds (Black) — 1 tsp (whole)
Cumin Seeds — 1 tsp (whole)

Method

Wash and chop the potatoes, carrot and green beans into small cubes and keep ready
Grind the fresh coconut, ginger, gram dal, green chilli and kala jeera to a smooth paste with a little water, and soak the tamarind to extract its pulp
Heat sunflower oil in a pressure cooker, add mustard seeds and cumin seeds and let them splutter, then drop in the cinnamon stick
Add the chopped potatoes, carrot and green beans with turmeric powder and salt and saute for two minutes
Pour in water and pressure cook for one whistle until the vegetables are half done
Open the cooker, stir in the ground coconut paste and tamarind pulp and simmer a few minutes till the raw smell goes and the kurma thickens
Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot

Common questions

How many calories in one plate of Brahmin-Style Vegetable Kurma (South Indian Coconut Vegetable Curry)?: 139 kcal per plate.
How much cooking time?: 45 min — 20 min prep, 25 min cooking.

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