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Valval is roughly other dish that I absolutely wouldn't consume every bit a child. Why??? Because it was likewise bland for me!! Huh?? Most kids beloved bland nutrient as well as I did non similar it. No rhyme or argue to it! But now, it is 1 of my favorite traditional konkani dishes as well as give thank yous God, my kids beloved it! It is similar to Avial that is cooked inwards the neighboring dry reason of Kerala( inwards India). I am from Karnataka. This dish is cooked traditionally for our festivals every bit at that spot is no onion or garlic used inwards this dish. This is 1 super slow dish as well as a nifty agency to acquire rid of whatever leftover vegetables inwards the refrigerator !
This dish is therefore 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 beloved it! I am also bringing it to Sonal's consequence Portion command as well as Light Eating Week every bit it is therefore good for yous that it is perfect for her theme!
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Servings: 6
Ingredients:
Carrot:1, sliced into thick two 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 two inch pieces
Pumpkin: 1/4 of a small-scale 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 laid 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 oestrus 1 loving cup water, add together the vegetables 1 afterwards the other inwards the gild of fourth dimension needed to laid amongst the ones that withdraw the longest fourth dimension going inwards first. Add the tender cashew nuts, slit greenish chilies and tabular array salt as well as laid until the vegetables are tender.
Dissolve tamarind pulp inwards a picayune H2O as well as add the H2O to the higher upwards pot.
Add 1 tin 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 higher upwards pot amongst the tempering.
Serve hot amongst steamed rice or savor a bowl all past times itself!
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Cooking made easy:
Any combination of vegetables tin move used for this dish only the vegetables that concur themselves good afterwards cooking are preferred similar gourds as well as carrots etc. Make certain to add together roughly beginning vegetables similar potatoes, cassava, yam etc which human activeness every bit thickening agents to the sauce. Otherwise the sauce becomes a picayune runny.
If using cassava, or colacasia(taro), brand certain that yous laid it separately amongst a picayune tamarind pulp as well as and therefore discard the water. Now yous tin mix this amongst the residual of the vegetables.
Tip for good for yous living:
If yous choose a heartburn afterwards eating a heavy meal, patently drinking 1 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:
All beloved shifts as well as changes. I don't know if yous tin move wholeheartedly inwards beloved all the time. Julie Andrews