Keralan vegetable stew | Syrian Christian Stew | Kukskitchen

Stew in a Syrian Christian home in Kerala means a soup like curry rich with coconut milk used as a side dish for breakfast mains like appam, idiyappam, vattayappam or even bread.



A few things before we start:

• If you don't have a pressure cooker, boil rest of (2), steam cook the vegetables and add to (2).
• Skip the last 50 ml of coconut milk for a healthier version.
• You can add sliced onion in as well if you don't like a smooth sauce.
• Add a pinch or two of turmeric if you like your stew to have a bit of colour. My friend S does it all the time in her stews.

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Keralan vegetable stew
Ready in 15 minutes
Cooking time 3 minutes

Serves: 6

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Ingredients:

1- Cinnamon - 1 piece

     Cloves- 2

     Cardamom- 2

     Pepper cones- 4

2-  Potatoes - 2 medium, peeled and diced

     Carrot - 1, diced

     Beans - 10, cut in to long battons
     Frozen peas - 1/2 cup

     Green chillies - 2, slit
     Curry leaves - 5-6

     Coconut milk- one cup, 200ml

     Water - one cup

     Salt to taste

3- Coconut oil - 1 tbsp

4- Coconut milk - 50ml, thick full fat

Method:

• Heat one tbsp of coconut oil in a pressure cooker and splutter the spices.
• Now add (2) mix well and apply the lid. Once steam starts to escape from the nozzle, apply the weight and wait till the first whistle. Get he flame to minimum and cook for 3 minutes. Turn off the flame and let pressure settle.
• Once all the pressure is released, open the lid, pour in 50 ml of thick coconut milk. Heat the pressure cooker with lid off and switch off flame before it starts to boil.

Serve with hot appams or idiyappams for a delicious breakfast.

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