Friday, September 07, 2007


Vegetable Saagu

=> Traditional Kannada dish.
=> Kannada style kurma.

Ingredients Needed:

1. Mixed Vegetables - 2 cups (Beans, Carrot, Cauliflower, Chow-chow, Peas, Potato--Cut into cubes)
2. Onion finely chopped - 2

3. Tomato finely chopped - 2
4. Hing

5. Salt to taste

6. Turmeric Powder
7. Water - Little
8. Lemon/Lime Juice 2 tsps


* Boil vegetables with little salt and turmeric and keep it aside.


Ingredients for paste:
1. Channa dal - 1 tsp

2. Chutney Dal - 1/2 tsp
3. Coriander seeds - 2 tsps
4. Cloves - 2
5. Cinnamon stick small piece

6. Dry Coconut (Kopra) Grated - 2 tablespoons
7. Dry Red Chillies
8. Pepper Corns few
9. Jeera - 1/4 tsp
10. Oil - 1 tsp

* Fry the above ingredients till golden brown, Cool and Grind into fine paste.
Ingredients for Tempering
1. Mustard seeds
2. Urad dal
3. Curry leaves

4. Oil 2 tablespoons

Method:
1. Heat Oil in a Kadai, Temper the ingredients.
2. Fry Chopped onion pieces till golden brown, now add chopped tomato and fry till it becomes pulp.
3. Now goes the grinded paste and fry till good aroma comes.

4. Add boiled vegetables and cook till gravy thickens.

5. Squeeze lemon juice and garnish with Coriander leaves


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This is my Submission for RCI (Karnataka) Hosted by Asha of FoodiesHope

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

TBC has left a new comment on your post:-
The color of the dish is beautiful & I love the serving dish. What is chutney dal?

Anonymous said...

Asha has left a new comment
Looks wonderful,thank you so much for your entry.

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Sreelu said...

I love this sagu I make it frequently

Rajesh &Shankari said...

sagu looks really good. I remember having it as a child in belgaum:)

Viji said...

You are so prompt MT. Lovely entry. Viji

Finla said...

Good dish i can just imagine mpooing up all the sauce with the chapathi

Chef Jeena said...

Beautiful recipe it looks fantastic, great recipe I bet itwas very tasty. :)

Sharmi said...

what a lovely entry! the kurma color has come out so well!!

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Latha Narasimhan said...

Your kadai handle is especially pretty! Nice recipe!

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