
Brahmin-Style Vegetable Kurma (South Indian Coconut Vegetable Curry)
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.
Time 45 min · Serves 5 · 139 kcal · South India, Multiple States
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
- Brahmin-Style Vegetable Kurma (South Indian Coconut Vegetable Curry) ko English mein kya kehte hain?
- ब्राह्मण स्टाइल वेजिटेबल कुर्मा (दक्षिण भारतीय नारियल सब्जी करी) ko English mein Brahmin-Style Vegetable Kurma (South Indian Coconut Vegetable Curry) likhte hain.
- Ek plate Brahmin-Style Vegetable Kurma (South Indian Coconut Vegetable Curry) mein kitni calories hoti hain?
- 139 kcal per plate.
- Kitna time lagta hai?
- 45 min lagta hai — 20 min taiyari, 25 min pakana.
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