Ingredients

• Coconut - 1 large
• Mixed Vegetables - 2 cups, diced (potato, carrot, beans, peas, cauliflower etc.)
• Green Chillies - 6 to 8, slit
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Cloves and Cinnamon - 3 each
• Onions - 2, chopped
• Rice Flour - 1 tbsp
• Sugar - 1 tsp, optional
• Salt to taste

How to Make Kerala Vegetable Stew

• Extract 1 cup of 1st milk and 1.5 cup of 2nd milk from the coconut.
• Mix all the vegetables with green chillies, add the 2nd coconut milk and place on fire.
• At the same time, on the other burner, heat oil, add cloves, cinnamon and onions and fry till onions are just wilted.
• Add this to the cooking vegetables and continue to cook till vegetables are soft.
• Add salt and rice flour mixed with 2 tbsp of water.
• Simmer for 2 minutes.
• Add the 1st coconut milk.
• Just as it begins to boil, remove from fire.
• Serve with rice, chapatti or bread.
• Variation: Potato Stew
• Boil, peel and lightly crush 1/2 kg potatoes.
• Heat second coconut milk with slit green chillies, chopped onion and ginger simmer for few minutes.
• Add potatoes and salt. Add first milk.
• Just as it begins to boil, remove from fire.