Sunday Mutton\Chicken\Vegetables Kurma

Ingredients:

• Mutton\Chicken\Mixed vegetables (beans, carrot, potato, green peas, cauliflower, knoolkol, etc)  -250g
• Grated Coconut – 50 g
• Green Chillies – 6
• Sombu (aniseed) – 1 tbsp
• Cuscus – 1 tbsp
• onions 2- thinly sliced
• tomato 2 -sliced
• ginger 2″ – pounded
• garlic paste 1 tsp
• cinnamon 1″
• cardamom 4 pieces
• cloves 4 pieces
• brinji leaves 4 pieces
• chilli powder  half tsp
• coriander powder half tsp
• turmeric powder half tsp
• salt to taste

Prep:

o Clean Mutton\Chicken\Mixed vegetables, cut into small pieces and boil with turmeric powder.

o Soak cuscus in warm water for 15m

Method:

*Fry green chillies in 2 tsp oil. Add coconut, sombu and cuscus to chillies and grind into fine paste.

*Heat 4 tbsp oil in a pan and fry in low heat cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, brinji leaves. When they splutter add ginger-garlic paste and fry for 30s.

*Add onions and fry till golden brown. Add tomato pieces and fry till it gets mashed.

* Mix chilli, coriander and turmeric powder and salt.
*Add boiled mutton/chicken/mixed vegetables and fry for 1 minute.
*Add coconut paste and sufficient water, curry leaves and boil for 5 minutes.

Note: This gravy goes well with Puri, Idiappam, Aappam, Idli and dosai.