Valval ( Mixed Vegetable Stew Inward Kokosnoot Milk)

Valval is about other dish that I absolutely wouldn't consume every bit a child. Why??? Because it was likewise bland for me!! Huh?? Most kids dearest bland nutrient as well as I did non similar it. No rhyme or argue to it! But now, it is i of my favorite traditional konkani dishes as well as give thank yous God, my kids dearest it! It is similar to Avial that is cooked inwards the neighboring nation of Kerala( inwards India). I am from Karnataka. This dish is cooked traditionally for our festivals every bit at that topographic point is no onion or garlic used inwards this dish. This is i super slow dish as well as a corking agency to acquire rid of whatsoever leftover vegetables inwards the refrigerator !

This dish is thus likeable that I am bringing it to Angie's Fiesta Friday! Margy@La Petite Casserole is the co-host this week. I am certain all the girls volition dearest it! I am also bringing it to Sonal's effect Portion command as well as Light Eating Week every bit it is thus good for yous that it is perfect for her theme!

Servings: 6

Ingredients:

Carrot:1, sliced into thick ii inch long pieces
Red potatoes: 2, cutting into big chunks
Ridge gourd: 1 small, cutting into 1 cms thick slices
Snake gourd: 1 small, cutting into 1 cms thick slices
Sweet potato: 1 small, cutting into big chunks
Ivy gourd: 6-8, chopped into medium pieces
Zucchini: 1, cutting into thick ii inch pieces
Pumpkin: 1/4 of a minor pumpkin, cutting into big chunks.
Arvi( collacasia): 2-3, peeled as well as cutting into big chunks.
Green chillies: 2-3, slit
Water: 1 loving cup to arrive at the vegetables
Coconut milk: 1 can
Tamarind: 1/2 marble sized
Asofoetida: pinch( optional)
Raw cashew nut halves: 1 tbsp( optional)
Salt: to taste

For tempering:
Coconut oil: 1 tsp
Jeera ( cumin seeds): 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds: 1 tsp
Curry leaves: 1 sprig

Method:

In a pot rut 1 loving cup water, add together the vegetables i afterwards the other inwards the lodge of fourth dimension needed to arrive at alongside the ones that demand the longest fourth dimension going inwards first. Add the tender cashew nuts, slit greenish chilies and tabular array salt as well as arrive at until the vegetables are tender.

Dissolve tamarind pulp inwards a lilliputian H2O as well as add the H2O to the inwards a higher house pot.

Add 1 tin strength out kokosnoot milk, pinch of asofoetida as well as simmer for few minutes.

Tempering:
Heat kokosnoot fossil oil inwards a frying pan, add together cumin seeds, mustard seeds. Once the mustard seeds splutter add together the curry leaves.

Garnish the inwards a higher house pot alongside the tempering.

Serve hot alongside steamed rice or bask a bowl all past times itself!

Cooking made easy:

Any combination of vegetables tin strength out endure used for this dish only the vegetables that stand upward for themselves good afterwards cooking are preferred similar gourds as well as carrots etc. Make certain to add together about source vegetables similar potatoes, cassava, yam etc which human activeness every bit thickening agents to the sauce. Otherwise the sauce becomes a lilliputian runny.

If using cassava, or colacasia(taro), brand certain that yous arrive at it separately alongside a lilliputian tamarind pulp as well as thus discard the water. Now yous tin strength out mix this alongside the residual of the vegetables.

Tip for good for yous living:

If yous choose a heartburn afterwards eating a heavy meal, obviously drinking i tsp of apple tree cider vinegar helps counteract it.
References:
http://www.refluxmd.com/learn/resources/2013-05-01/2427/apple-cider-vinegar-acid-reflux
http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/acid-reflux-fact-sheet

Food for thought:

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