Free Recipe Kurma

Recipe Type: I Recipes
Recipe Preparation: boil
Cooking Temperature:
Recipe Serves: 4

Ingredients for Kurma Recipe

1/2 Medium-sized (4 oz/100
Grammes) aubergine, cut
Into
Three-quarter inch by half
Inch (2 cm x 1 cm sticks)
2 sm Carrots (4 oz/100 grammes),
Peeled and cut into
Three-quarter inch by half
Inch (2 cm x 1 cm sticks)
4 oz (100 grammes) peas
4 oz (100 grammes) French beans,
Cut into 1 inch (2 and a
Half
Cm) pieces
1 Medium-sized potato (4 oz x
100 Grammes), peeled and cut
Into
Three-quarter inch by half
Inch (2 cm x 1 cm sticks)
2 oz (50 grammes) fresh grated
Coconut
4 Fresh hot green chillies
2 tb White poppy seeds
Quarter tsp salt
3 Medium-sized tomatoes,
Roughly chopped
1 tb Natural (plain) yoghurt
1 ts Garam masala
2 tb Chopped, fresh green
Coriander

Kurma Preparation

Place the aubergine, carrots, peas, French beans and potato in a medium-sized saucepan. Add 8fl oz (250ml) water. Bring to the boil. Cover, turn the heat to medium and cook for four minutes or until the vegetables are just tender. Meanwhile put the coconut, chillies, poppy seeds and salt in an electric blender. Add 5 fluid ounces (150 ml) water and grind to a fine paste. Set aside. When the vegetables are cooked, add the spice paste and 5 fluid ounces (150 ml) water. Stir and simmer gently for five minutes. Add the tomatoes, yoghurt and garam masala. Stir gently to mix well. Bring to the boil and simmer gently for 2 – 3 minutes. Turn into a serving dish and garnish with the fresh coriander. TIPS If you wish to substitute unsweetened, desiccated coconut for fresh coconut use 5 tbsps (1 oz/30 grammes). Barely cover with warm water and leave for one hour, then proceed with the recipe. Coriander is the parsley of India. Mix it with vegetables and chicken, use as a garnish and add the stems to soup and dals for extra flavour. To keep coriander fresh, stand sprigs in a glass of water, cover with a plastic bag and keep in the fridge. Kurma Westerners who come to Madras, Tamil Nadu”s capital city, expecting to find meals made with Madras curry powder are in for a surprise. Curry powders manufactured in this southern Indian city are strictly for export. Aromatic spices, fennel seeds and fresh coconut are the ingredients that give the superb cuisine of Tamil Nadu its flavour and texture. For this dish, vegetables are dressed with a ground paste of fresh coconut, poppy seeds and green chillies, which is cooked briefly with the vegetables so that it is absorbed by them. The dish is best served with plain rice and you could also serve it as an accompaniment to a meat dish. Copyright of the British Broadcasting Corporation From Gemini”s MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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