Mixed Veggies Tonak
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Goan
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Serves: 3-4
 
Mixed veggies Tonak is a Goan speciality wherein mixed vegetables are cooked in a coconut and spices based gravy. It is usually eaten with Pav. But it tastes good with rotis or rice too.
Ingredients
  • Cauliflower: 2 cups chopped
  • Carrot: 1 medium peeled and chopped
  • Potato: 1 large peeled and chopped
  • Green peas: ¾ cup
  • Onion : 2
  • Potato: 1 chopped
  • Cinnamon : ½ inch piece
  • Cloves: 4
  • Peppercorns: 10-12
  • Bay Leaf: 1
  • Coriander seeds: 2-3 tsp
  • Garlic: 2 cloves finely chopped
  • Ginger: ¼ inch piece
  • Scraped Coconut: 1 cup
  • Dry Red Chillies: 5 small
  • Tamarind: 1 marble sized ball
  • Turmeric Powder: 1 tsp
  • Salt: to taste
Instructions
  1. Heat a little oil in a pan and stir fry the ginger and garlic till brown. Add the cinnamon, cloves, peppercorns, bay leaf and coriander seeds and stir fry for 2-3 minutes. Remove and keep aside.
  2. Heat oil in pan and stir fry one roughly chopped onion till translucent. Add scrapped coconut and stir fry till golden brown.
  3. Grind the ginger-garlic-dry spices and onion-coconut mixture along with dry red chilies and tamarind. Use around ½ cup of water to grind to a smooth paste.
  4. Mix the cauliflower, potato, carrot, green peas and finely chopped onion. Add a little water, close lid and let cook till the veggies are boiled.
  5. Add the ground coconut mixture. Add turmeric powder and salt to taste. Close lid and let cook for 3-4 minutes. If the gravy looks too dry, you can add a little water.
  6. Garish with coriander
Notes
I have used the above measurements of spices several times in India with perfect results. However, sometimes the spices are much stronger (for e.g in the Gulf where I live now). In that case you might want to reduce the spices. I usually reduce the stronger spices by around 25% when I make this curry in Bahrain.
You may increase or decrease the chillies based on what suits your taste.
Recipe by YourHungerStop at https://www.yourhungerstop.com/mixed-veggies-tonak/