Coconut Curry Recipe
Coconut Curry Recipe
Cuisine: MaharashtrianCoconut Curry Recipe: Coconut Curry is a Maharashtrian-style curry made with coconut and spices. It’s a versatile curry that can include various vegetables or lentils.
Ingredients
coconut milk,
2-3 green chilies
3-4 pods of garlic
4 coccums
½ ts of Tamarind paste
Hand full of coriander leaves
¼ tea spoon peeper powder(freshly crushed)
Salt to taste
Pinch of asafetida (hing)
½ tea spoon of cumin seeds
1 table spoon of Ghee/butter
Directions
- Take coconut milk and add appropriate water, and mix well.
- Then soak coccoums in a Luke warm water and take out its sour juice
- or mix tamrind paste with very little water.
- Make the paste of garlic, green chilies and coriander leaves in the mixer.
- Heat the butter/ghee in a frying pan.
- Then add cumin seeds, see if they crackle
- Add asafetida or hing powder.
- Then fry the garlic-chilly paste and stir fry for a moment or two.
- Then add the coconut milk and later add coccum juice or tamarind paste.
- Heat this mixture just for half a minute(not to boil).
- Take away the frying pan from the stove
- Then add salt to taste which is mixed well with freshly crushed peeper and stir the curry.
- Served with steamed hot rice, pulao or biryani.
- This can be served as an appetizer or soup.
