This is one of the first recipes I learnt. When we stayed in the Telephones quarters at Hyderabad, a Nair family moved in to our opposite flat. Mrs Nair was a great cook and we loved her aapam with a simple stew. I prepared this stew as a side dish for dosa as my hubby is not particularly interested in aapam. Stew tasted exactly the way aunty prepares and tasted great with dosa.
Posting a recipe for Srivalli’s MW event is not a big deal for me as I cook almost everything in the MW. Still I have not sent entries to her events in the past few months! Stew is my first entry for this months MEC! 🙂
Ingredients
- Potato – 2 no
- Carrot – 1 no
- Onion – 1 small
- Tomato – 1 small
- Curry leaves – 1 twig
- Ginger – 1/2 inch piece
- Green chillies- 2 nos
- Coconut grated – 1/2 cup
- Cloves – 2 nos
- Cinnamon – 2 sticks
- Turmeric powder – 1/4 teaspoon
- Oil – 1 teaspoon
- Salt – to taste
Method
- Wash peel and cut the carrots into 1 inch sticks. Add turmeric powder and MW high for 3 minutes in a microwave safe container.
- Add 1 cup water to the coconut and grind in a mixer. Pass through a strainer and squeeze out the milk.Keep this thick coconut milk separately.
- Add 2 more cups of water to the coconut and grind again. Pass through a strainer and squeeze out the milk. This is slightly thinner than the milk extracted first.
- In an MW safe bowl, add oil, cloves and cinnamon sticks. MW high for 10 seconds.
- Add finely chopped onions, tomatoes, green chillies, ginger and curry leaves and MW high for 1 minute.
- Add the parboiled potato, carrots, salt and the thin coconut milk and MW high for 2 minutes.
- Add the thick coconut milk and MW for 1/2 minute. Serve hot with Aapam or Dosa.
I guess it’s a thick dosa that would taste good with this. I’d take the aapam any day, though!
Looks yummy Latha! I love this stew, tastes great with toast or hardrolls too.
I made shn’s Potato stew, Tushar loved it.
We had fun Y’day, like Deepavali here for Independce day. Uploading videos right now!:))
Went to “Wanted” movie, EXCELLENT!! Blood and gore, loads of them too!Hahaha!
Two bathrooms are getting primed and painted now, lot of dust at home, had to run out of the house. See you on Monday.
Hare Krishna aunty
Thank you for visiting my blog. My wife discovered your blog and hence i have been visiting. Your recipes are very nice and easy to cook. Thank you for your recipes.
I read the “Tale of Nagapatinam” story and very endearing and sweet. Of course, Krishna is all sweet. Thank you for the nice pictures and sharing your wonderful realizations.
Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and it is our prime duty to submit unto His Lotus feet and at the lotus feet of His devotees.
The temple and gopuram pictures are very nice…i liked the pictures of the dieties especially!!
Hope you are doing well.
Thank you.
Hare Krishna
anand
The coconut milk adds taste to any stew LathaN. Very nice. Viji
Hi ,
Simple and yummy looking recipe .Tks .I learned this frm a Malyali friends mum and made it a few times and somehow forgot abt it.Ur post jogged my memory and I will have to make it in this week with appams.
Stew is looking delicious Lathamma..I am going to try this soon.I too prefer to eat with dosas.
Thats a quick, easy and a healthy stew! Just the way I like it 🙂
I am constantly in awe of the things I see that can be made in the microwave.
How can anything with coconut milk not be heavenly? We love this and always serve it with “vella aappam”.:)
Except our version doesn’t include turmeric powder.
looks lovely lathamma..thanks for the entry…and looking forward to many more..heheh..:)
Hare Krishna! Being sensitive to all living things brings us closer to GOD! I like your blog! 🙂
We have formed a group to visit all the 108 divya desams. Here in Bangalore ISKON temple is very near to my home! 🙂
In response to your comment above, please read my reply. Thank you.
Hare Krishna aunty
Thank you for your response. You are cent percent right. Compassion to all living entities is our expression of love towards God. Since Krishna is the source and originator and root cause of all existance, by serving Him, we can serve everyone simultaneously just like when we water the root of a plant, all the parts of the tree is nourished.
Since as jivatmas we are His part and parcel, by serving the whole Krishna, we will be nourished. Therefore all great saints such as the 12 Alwars dedicated their lives in the service of Narayana.
So our purpose of life is to serve Krishna unconditionally by sharing this knowledge with others, thus pleasing the Lord and pleasing His devotees. When people understand this knowledge scientifically, people will be eternally benefited beyond mundane dualities. Then your original statement will come true of showing compassion and love to all.
Giving the knowledge of Krishna to everyone is the highest compassion one can do to all living entities which will cross birth and death (samsara).
Aunty, while you travel and blog, please keep this message of chanting the Holy names of Hare Krishna to everyone (the maha mantra is on the main page).
My humble request!
You can share this mantra with everyone and people will be happy internally.
I hope your travel to the 108 divya desams goes great.
If you have the time, please visit my blog.
Thank you.
Hare Krishna
hi lathamma..i also make similar stew to go with aappam…a delicous combo..one of my fav :)…only differnce is i add cashews too along with the vegetables and skip the turmeric pdr…
i have another award for u lathamma..collect it soon :)..
I love stew… even over plain rice 🙂
yummy stew..love to have it with aapam and idiyappam!!
I grew up on this!! Sri Lankan Tamils make a similar dish and call it sothi and we eat it with rice or idiappam. Mom made it almost every week and it was a sure way to get the kids to lick their plates clean.
I tried this recipe and it’s a super hit ..
Thanks to you
I’ve been absent for a while, but now I remember why I used to love this blog. Thanks , I’ll try and check back more frequently. How frequently you update your website?