Veg Kolhapuri, without onion and garlic

Veg Kolhapuri

Festival and fasting are on the way. All are gearing up for the navratri and fasting. In this fasting season no onion and garlic dishes are must. Here is my solution for these fasting recipes. Veg kolhapuri is one of the dishes I prepared for this occasion.

Kolhapuri cuisine is a style of preparation by using specific types of masalas. They belong to maharastrian cuisine. These dishes are really very tasty and only slightly hot. Lots of varieties of spices are used to make this masala. Onion and garlic ois also used in this. But I omitted these to make it a fasting recipe. Here is the recipe.

FOr masala

Scarped Coconut- 2 tbsp

Zeera- 1 tsp

Dhania- 1tsp

Poppy seed- 1tsp

Cardamom- 3

Clove- 4

Cinnamon- 1/2inch

Oil- 1tbsp

Tomato- 2

Ginger- 1inch

Red chilli- 2

Other ingredients

Cauliflower- 4 florets

Carrot- 2

Capsicum- 1

Potato- 2(medium)

Green peas- a handful

Salt to taste

Sugar- 1/2tsp

Ghee- 2tbsp

Zeera- 1/2tsp

Kashmiri red chili powder- 1/2tsp

Haldi- 1/2tsp

Oil- 1 tbsp

Heat oil in a pan add coconut, zeera, dhania, poppy seed, cardamom, clove, cinnamon, peppercorn and fry for 3 to 4 mins in low flame. In a grinder jar add tomato, ginger and fried masala and make a smooth paste.

Cut the vegetables in 1inch long pieces. Heat oil in a kadai and add the cut vegetables and sauté up to raw smell goes. Remove from fire and keep aside.

Heat ghee in a kadai and add zeera to it. Let it crackle and the masala paste and fry up to the masala separates from oil. Add salt, sugar, haldi and red chilli powder to it and sauté again.  When masala separates from add vegetables and 1 cup water.

Mix properly and cover the lid and cook up to the vegetables are cooked.  Add coriander leaves to the curry and serve hot with roti or rice.