Ingredients:
• Drumstick – 2 nos
• ladies finger – 10 nos
• Carrot – 2 nos
• beans – 100 gms
• red Pumpkin – 1 small piece
• Potato – 2 nos
• Tomato – 2 nos
• Onion – 2 nos
• Tamarind – 1 Lemon size
• Sunflower oil – 1 small cup
• Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp
• For Grinding Paste –
• Coconut – grated / sliced 1 to 1.5 cup
• red chilly – 5 to 6 nos
• toor dhal – 2 tsp
• Rice – 1 tsp
• white til – 1/2 tsp
• For Garnishing –
• Curry leaves
• Coriander leaves
• Mint leaves
Method:
- Cut all the mentioned vegetables into big pieces the way you do for sambhar, except tomato and onion. Cook vegetables by adding salt, water and a small pinch turmeric. Put lady’s finger at the last, as it will cook faster.
- Take a kadai, fry red chilly, tuvar dal, rice and til by adding 1 tsp oil till the dal turns into light brown.
- Take from kadai and keep aside.
- Pour some oil (one small cup) in the kadai, splutter mustard seeds.
- Add curry leaves, chopped tomato, onion and fry well.
- Once vegetables are cooked (3/4), add fried tomato and onion.
- Then pour tamarind paste and make it to boil.
- Grind coconut and fried items well by adding water.
- Pour this paste into the boiling vegetables.
- Make it to boil for 5 to 6 seconds.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and pudina leaves.
- The tasty varuthu araitha kuzhambu is ready.
- You can mix it with rice with appalam as side dish and eat.
- Note: You can add vegetables which suits with the above vegetables like bell-chilli, cauliflower, coccinea etc.
Recipe courtesy of Vijaya Bala