Mix Veg Curry

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Ingredients:

• Boiled vegetables - 2 cup (carrot, cauliflower, beans, peas, potato, etc.)
• Tomato  - 1 (sliced)
• Coconut - 1/2  grated
• Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
• Green chilly - 3
• Sesame seeds - 1 tsp
• Mustard seeds - ½ tsp
• Cumin seeds - ½ tsp
• Red chilly powder - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Lemon juice - 1 tsp
• Cloves - 2
• Cinnamon - 1"
• Ghee - 4 tsp

Method:

• Drain the boiled vegetables, keep aside.
• Grind together, coconut, chilly, sesame seeds, cinnamon and cloves.
• Heat the ghee, add mustard seeds, When the mustard starts to crackle add cumin seeds.
• Add ginger garlic paste.
• Stir fry for 3 to 4 mins.
• Add vegetables except tomatoes.
• Cover it and simmer for 5 minutes.
• Add salt, chilly powder, tomatoes and cook till gravy gets thick.
• Serve hot with parotha or chappathi.
• Garnish with coriander leafs.

Tamarind rice (puli Satham)

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Ingredients:

• Rice - 2 cup cooked rice
• Tamarind juice -  ½ cup
• Black gram - 50 gm
• Bengal gram- 50 gm
• red chilly - 4
• peanut - 4 tsp
• Garlic - 5 cloves
• Fenugreek - 1 tsp
• Asafoetida  - 1 tsp
• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp 
• Black peppercorns - 3 tsp 
• Turmeric powder - 1 tsp 
• Curry leaves - 10 leafs
• Salt - for taste
• Oil - 50 ml 

Method:

• Roast (Without oil) Bengal gram, black gram, Fenugreek and red chilly.
• Grind this into a fine powder. Set aside. (Or) use tamarind rice powder.
• Heat the oil and add mustard seeds, When the mustard starts to crackle add red chilly, garlic, peanut, peppercorns, Black gram, Bengal gram and curry leafs. 
• after 1 min add tamarind juice, grind powder,  asafoetida, turmeric powder, coriander powder and salt. 
• Cook till the water evaporates and the gravy gets thicker. 
• Add the paste into cooked rice.