COCONUT MILK SAMBHAR

Ingredients:

DrumStick - 1

Brinjal - 3

Carrot - 2

Potato - 2

Beans - 8

Peas - 1/2 cup

Big Onion - 2

Green Chillies - 4

Coconut(big) - 1

Dalia Channa - 2tbsp

Ginger - 1 piece

Garlic - 4 pods

Haldi a small pinch

Oil - 2tsp

Mustard - 1/2tsp

Fenugreek seeds(methi) - 1/2tsp

Curry leaves - a sprig

Method:

1.Chop all the vegetables, including Onion,ginger and garlic into long pieces.

2.Cut and keep green chillies into two halves.

3.Dessicate Coconut and take coconut milk and keep it. One should be a thick milk and another should be lightly diluted.

4.In the second diluted milk put all the vegetables, onion, ginger and garlic and cook them.

5.Heat 1/2 tsp of oil in a kadai, in it add methi seeds and fry them, put them in the cooking vegetable liquid.

6.With the left over oil fry the Channa dalia and green chillies. Grind them and make a paste and mix this paste with the first coconut milk(i.e.thick coconut milk).

7.Once the vegetables are cooked add the first coconut milk to it and keep mixing it without taking hand out of it.

8.Bring it down when it boils nicely.

9.Heat left over oil in a kadai, add Mustard and urad dal and curry leaves, wait till it splutters and then season the gravy.