Veg kurma

Ingredients :
Chilli - 3
Garlic - 5 pods
Ginger - a thumb size
Onion - 1 medium
Tomato - 1 big
Cloves - 3
Cinnamon - 1 inch
Fennel seeds -1/4 tsp
Carrot - 1 big
Peas 1/2 cup( if dried peas, soak and cook it )
Potato - 2
Beans - 10
Cocunut - 3/4 cup
Poppy seeds - 1 tsp

Step 1 To fry and grind :
Onion -  little less than 1/2
Tomato - little less than half
1.  In a pan, add oil and when it is hot, add fennel seeds, cloves, cinnamon, green chilli, ginger, garlic.
2. Fry them nicely. Add onion and fry nicely. Add tomatoes and fry.
3. Make it into a fine paste.

Step 2 Grind :
1. Soak poppy seeds in hot water for an hour.
2. Grind it with coconut.

Method :

1. In a pan, add oil. When it is hot, add curry leaves, rest of the onion and sauté well.
2. Add rest of the tomatoes and sauté well.
3. Add vegetables and sauté well.
4. Add the paste from step 1.
5. Add turmeric and salt and water and let the vegetables cook.
6. Once the vegetables are cooked, add paste from step 2.
7. When it starts boiling, add chopped coriander leaves and switch off the flame.

This goes well with chapathi, rice, idiyappam, appam idli, dosa.

Enjoy the joy of cooking.