Vegetable Saagu

Vegetable Saagu recipe

Ingredients
1. Mixed vegetables - Diced cabbage, carrot, Surti paapdi (Avarekaalu)or Lima beans ,Green Beans – All together 3-4 cups ,Potato – 1 medium finely diced
2. Cilantro/Kotombri – ¼ of a bunch
3. Cumin seeds/Jirge - 2 Tbsp
4. Cinnamon - 1 inch
5. Khus Khus /Ghas Ghase - 3 -4 Tbsp
6. Green chilies – 8-10 depending on how spicy you want it.
7. Fried gram dhal(Hurgadle or putani in Kannada) – ½ a handful
8. Grated coconut – ½ cup
9. Oil – 3-4 Tbsp
10. Lemon Juice – 1.5 tsp
11. Salt to taste
12. Water as required
10.

For seasoning
13. Mustard - 1 tsp
14. Urad dhal – 1 tsp
15. Karipatta or Curry leaves – 4 or 5
16. A ping of hing


Method

1. Boil all the vegetables in a pressure cooker with enough water .I usually put water just enough to cover the veggies and cook them for 2 whistles. The vegetables should not get mashed up too soft. Alternatively you can cook them in the microwave too.
2. Drain and preserve the water from the cooked vegetables.
3. Grind ingredients 2 thru 8 with water as required to chutney consistency.
4. Take oil in a vessel. Sputter the mustard seeds. Add hing and curry leaves.
5. Then add the ground chutney from Step 2 and fry it in the seasoning for a about 3-4 minutes until the raw smell goes off
6. Add the vegetables with some of the water from the cooked vegetables and boil for another 5- 8 minutes. You have to add the water little by little so that the saagu can be of thick consistency. Once the saagu starts bubbling and you can turn off the stove at that point.
Enjoy the saagu with hot pooris

Tip : You can fry onions , 2-3 cloves of garlic and grind with the rest of ingredients for the saagu paste/chutney , add garam masala and make it into a vegetable kurma .