Healthy Mixed Vegetable dry curry | Easy & Simple dry curry with Potato, Beans, Cluster Beans, Brinjal and Greenpeas

This Mixed vegetable dry curry is healthy, tasty and very very easy to prepare. My choice of vegetables is Potatoes, Green Beans, Cluster Beans, Brinjal and Green peas. I love this combination of vegetables for Roti and Chapathi.

We usually prepare mixed vegetable gravy with carrot, beans, potato and green beans for chapathi. But try this medley of vegetables for the curry the one I mentioned in the above paragraph, trust me it's tastes awesome.


This recipe is very very simple and also healthy and tasty. This is such a simple recipe that does not require any spice powders or ground masala.

Preparation time: 15 Min's
Cooking Time: 20 to 30 Min's
Serves: 4

Ingredients :

• 2 Potatoes, medium-sized
• 50 gms of  Green Beans
• 50 gms of Cluster Beans
• 50 gms of Green Peas
• 3 Brinjals, chopped into small pieces
• 10 Garlic pods, chopped
• 4 Green chilies, finely chopped
• 1 Onion large size, finely chopped
• 2 Tomatoes, chopped
• 1 tsp Cumin seeds
• 1 tsp Mustard seeds
• 2 tbsp of Oil

Method

• Peel the potato skin and cut into small-sized pieces. Chop green beans and cluster beans into pieces that are one inch long. Chop the brinjals into small pieces and place them in water.

• Heat 2 tbsp of oil in heavy-bottomed kadai/pan. When hot add mustard seeds, allow it to crackle and next add the cumin seeds.

• Immediately add the chopped garlic pods and green chilies to it and fry for few seconds.

• Add the chopped onions to it and fry for a minute.

• Next add the veggies green beans, cluster beans, green peas, potato, and salt to it and mix well. Cover the pan/kadai with a lid and cook the vegetables by stirring occasionally for 5 minutes.

• When the vegetables are half cooked, add the brinjals to it and cook for 10 minutes.

• When the veggies are almost cooked, add the tomatoes to it and cook for another 5 minutes or till the tomatoes are completely cooked.

• Serve with roti, naan, and chapathi.

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Kerala Style Egg Roast

Egg Roast is one of the popular side dish in Kerala. They serve this curry with Appam, Idiyappam, Parrotta. Usually, they serve this curry for breakfast. This egg roast/ mutta curry / mutta roast takes a  little more time to cook, but worth trying it.

It has different variations with consistency. I prefer my egg roast to be semi gravy. So today's recipe is to learn how to make traditional Kerala style egg roast. It's a must-try recipe.

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 4 Boiled Eggs
• 2 Onions, chopped
• 3 Tomatoes chopped
• 3 Green chilies, slited
• 1/2 tsp Red chilly powder
• 1 tsp Coriander powder
• 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp Pepper powder
• 1/2 tsp Garam masala
• Salt to taste
• 2 tbsp of Oil
• Few Curry leaves
• Coriander leaves

Method

• Heat oil in a heavy-bottomed kadai, when hot add mustard seeds and allow it to splutter.

• Add fennel seeds and fry. 

• Add Onions,  ginger garlic paste,  few curry leaves and fry till the Onions becomes light golden brown in color.

• Add tomatoes and all spice powders and cook till the oil separates from the gravy.

• Add 1/2 cup of water and allow it to boil.

• Then add the eggs and mix gently.

• Cover and cook the curry for 2 Mins.

• Garnish with coriander leaves.

• Serve with hot appam  / dosa  / chappathi / parotta

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Ladies Finger Curry | Vendakkai Curry | Okra Curry - South Indian Style

Vendakkai curry - an easy south Indian style ladies finger curry without coconut. It pairs well with rice and chappathi. I added sambar podi/ powder to this recipe. That gives a very nice taste to this curry.

You can make this curry even without sambar powder. But trust me guys, when you add sambar podi, the curry tastes awesome. I love to have this curry with curd rice. Ladies finger and curd rice is the best combination.

Ingredients

• 250 gms of Ladies Finger / vendakkai / Okra
• 1 Onion, chopped
• 2 Tomatoes, medium-sized chopped
• 2 Dry Red Chillies
• 1 tsp Mustard seeds
• 1/2 tsp Red Chilly powder
• 1 tsp Sambar powder
• Salt to taste
• 2 tbsp of Oil

Method

• Wash and pat dry the lady's finger before chopping to avoid the slime. I usually wash it and strain the water completely and place them in a kitchen towel to dry.

• Now chop the ladies finger into small pieces.

• Heat oil in a pan, when hot add mustard seeds and allow it to splutter.

• Next, add the ladies finger and fry for one minute.

• Cover the pan with the lid and cook in a medium flame for 2 minutes. in between stir it 2 or 3 times.

• Remove the lid/cover and add the onion, tomatoes, chilly powder, sambar powder, and salt and mix well.

• Cook the curry in low medium flame and keep stirring in between to avoid burning.

• Sprinkle water if needed. Top/pour oil if the curry sticks to the pan.

• Once done transfer to a bowl and serve with rice or chappathi.

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Watermelon, Mint and Lemon Juice

A very refreshing drink to cool down summer hot days - Watermelon, mint and lemon juice. It's very easy, quick to make a drink, a very healthy drink and helps in hydrating the body.

Whenever I prepare this juice I never add ice cubes or sugar to it. I always chill the watermelon slices by keeping it in the fridge for a few hours and then make the juice. Also, the fruit itself very sweet so that you don't need to add sugar. But if you like, you can add sugar.

Ingredients :

• 1 large bowl of Watermelon, diced
• 3 sprigs of Mint Leaves
• 1/4 tsp Salt or Black salt ( preferably black salt )
• Juice from 1 large Lemon

Method 1 :

• Place the watermelon pieces and mint leaves together in a blender.

• Pulse/ blend the watermelon until smooth.

• Pour the juice/puree to a bowl. You need to repeat this for 3 to 5 times.

• Next squeeze the lemon to the juice and add salt and mix well

• Serve chill.

Method 2 :

• Place watermelon, mint leaves, salt and lemon juice and blend till smooth and serve chill.

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Ragi Roti

Today I'm going to share a very easy recipe and my version of making ragi roti. Yes, it's very quick, and a very simple recipe and very very easy to make roti. It's a perfect breakfast recipe and its healthy too.

Ingredients :

• 1 cup Ragi flour
• 1 large Onion, finely chopped
• 3 Green chilies, finely chopped
• 2 handful of chopped Coriander leaves
• Salt to taste
• Oil for smearing on Roti

Method:

• In a large bowl mix all the ingredients except oil.

• Add 1 to 2 cups of water and mix well.

• The consistency should be very thick and slightly pourable.  ( i don't form a dough or balls out of ragi flour. Instead, I make thick consistency )

• Heat a tawa / dosa pan. When hot add 1 ladle of thick batter on tawa and spread with hand to a round shape. Be careful of your fingers while making this.

• Smear 1/2 tsp oil around the roti and cook in a low medium flame. Flip the roti and cook on the other side as well and also smear 1/4 tsp oil around the roti.

• Serve hot with coconut chutney.