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Vegetable Saagu is very popular side dish which goes very well with almost everything including poori, rice, rava idli and so on. It is a blend of vegetables with a touch of spice.
Ingredients
- ½ cup Green beans 15 to 20
- ½ cup cut carrots around 2
- ½ cup cut potato keep the cut potatoes in water ( 1 small medium size)
- ½ cup chopped onion 1 small onion
- ½ cup fresh / soaked peas ( soak ¼ cup dried peas 3 to 4 hours which yields ½ cup soaked peas
- little bit of turmeric powder
- Few curry leaves
- Vegetables can be more or less than ½ cup.
- For Grinding:
- ½ cup fresh/frozen coconut
- 1½ TBSP Fried gram dal/hurigadale/pottu kadalai
- 2 teaspoon poppy seeds /khus khus/gasagase
- 4 to 5 green chillies
- 1 TBSP cilantro/coriander leaves
- little bit of chopped onion
- 3 to 4 cups of water
- For seasoning:
- 2 teaspoon of oil
- pinch of hing
- ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
- Few curry leaves
Instructions
- Boil 2 cups of water.
- Add all the vegetables to the boiling water. Then add salt, turmeric powder, and curry leaves, and mix well.
- Let it boil on medium heat for 10 minutes or until the peas and beans become tender.
- Grind coconut, fried gram dal, poppy seeds, green chillies, coriander leaves and a little bit of onion into a fine paste. Add enough water to grind.
- Add this paste to the partially cooked vegetables.
- Let it cook for another 8 to 10 minutes on medium low heat.
- Stir it in between to avoid burning.
- Then turn off the heat.
- Now the Sagu is ready.
- Giving seasoning is optional.
Seasoning:
- Heat 2 tsp oil in ladle on medium heat.
- Once it is hot enough, add hing and mustard seeds.
- Once the mustard seeds pop, turn off the heat, and add curry leaves.
- Pour it on the saagu. Mix it and serve with chapati, poori, set dosa, rave idli...