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| Healthy Fried vegetables curry gravy |
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Recipe summary
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Healthy Fried vegetables curry gravy
Preparation time:45 minutes
Cooking time: 3 hrs (Every vegetable is air fried separately)
Serves: 10
Serves: 10
Preparation
1. Peel 200 grams chayote and slice into bite-size cubes. You can use a potato peeler. Use gloves when peeling it because slippery sap will ooze from the vegetable. This vegetable has no taste.So, marinate in salt over night.
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2. Take 150 grams tindora, slice off both ends and and cut into bite size pieces. You can add salt to it and keep in the refrigerator the previous night. If you marinate in salt it will be tastier.
3. Next is 100 grams green (unripe) cooking mango, sliced into bite-size cubes. It is not necessary to peel the mango. I did not peel it. But if you wish you can peel it. Mango peel gives a nice aroma. The mango flesh will impart sourness to the curry.
4. Slice 250 grams egg plant into bite-size cubes. After you cut the eggplant, immerse the cut pieces in a bowl of tap water. You can add a little salt if you like. Immersing the eggplant pieces will prevent them from discoloring due to oxidation.
5. Peel 80 grams cooking plantain (unripe). Use gloves when peeling the plantain. A sticky gum in the skin will discolor your hands.
6. After peeling off all the skin, still using the gloves, slice the plantain into bite-size cubes and put the pieces in a bowl of water. Immersing the plantain slices in the water will prevent them from discoloring due to oxidation.
7. Slice 200 grams okra (ladies finger) into bite-size pieces.
8. Slice 50 grams broad beans into bite-size pieces.
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Air frying
9. Fry egg plant for 30 minutes.
10. Fry okra 25 minutes.
11. Fry broad beans 10 minutes.
12.Fry plantain pieces 20 minutes.
13. Fry tindora 30 minutes.
14. coarsely chop 150 grams onion and 15 grams garlic, peeled and halved vertically and fry for 10 minutes.
All vegetables are coated lightly with oil and a little salt sprinkled.
Vegetables are stirred half way during air-frying.
Method
1. In a large pan add 2 tbsp vegetable oil and heat it up. When the oil is hot, reduce the heat to low and add 1 dry red chili broken into small pieces and fry for 20 seconds then add 1/2 tsp cumin seeds, 1/2 tsp fennel seeds and 1 tsp fenugreek seeds, Fry for 30 seconds.
2. Add the half fried 150 grams onion, coarsely chopped and 15 grams garlic, peeled and halved vertically. Fry for 5 minutes.
3. Add 4 green chilies, sliced thin and 10 curry leaves, chopped, and fry for 2 minutes.
4. Add 80 grams tomato, cut into wedges and fry for 5 minutes.
5. Now add all the fried vegetables one by one and stir well and fry for 5 minutes.
6. Add the chayote slices and mango slices and mix well.
7. Add 2 tbsp curry powder and 1/2 tsp turmeric powder. Stir to mix well.
8. Add 4 cups of water and mix well. Increase the heat and bring to the boil quickly.
9. Reduce the heat, cover the pot with a lid and let it simmer for 15 minutes.
10. Add juice from 15 grams of tamarind and 1 tsp salt and cook for 3 minutes.
11. Add 1 cup coconut milk and cook for 3 minutes.
12. The curry is ready.Serve while hot with rice or flat breads like chapatti.
Healthy Fried vegetables curry gravy is ready.
Preparation time:45 minutes
Cooking time: 3 hrs (Every vegetable is air fried separately)
Serves: 10
Serves: 10
Ingredients:
Main
Main
250 grams egg plant, sliced into bite-size cubes
200 grams chayote, sliced into bite-size cubes
100 grams green (unripe) cooking mango, sliced into bite-size cubes
80 grams tomato, cut into wedges
80 grams cooking plantain (unripe), sliced into bite-size cubes. Cooking plantain is different from banana which you eat when ripe.
150 grams tindora (Ivy Gourd), sliced into bite-size pieces
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| Tindora or Ivy gourd |
150 grams onion, coarsely chopped
15 grams garlic, peeled and halved vertically
4 green chilies, sliced thin
10 curry leaves, chopped
Spices
1/2 tsp cumin seed
1 tsp fenugreek seed
1/2 tsp fennel seeds
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp salt
1 dry red chili broken into small pieces
2 tbsp curry powder
2 tbsp curry powder
Others
1 cup coconut milk or cream
4 tbsp vegetable oil
15 grams tamarind pulp, juice extracted
4 cups of water – we want a lot of gravy
Preparation
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| Chayote (Chow-chow) |
Peel the chayote. You can use a potato peeler. Use gloves when peeling it because slippery sap will ooze from the vegetable. This vegetable has no taste.so marinate in salt over night.
Cut both ends of tindora and cut into bite size pieces. You can add salt to it and keep in the refrigerator the previous night. If you marinate in salt it will be tastier.
It is not necessary to peel the mango. I did not peel it. But if you wish you can peel it. Mango peel gives a nice aroma. The mango flesh will impart sourness to the curry.
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| Tindora cut pieces |
It is not necessary to peel the mango. I did not peel it. But if you wish you can peel it. Mango peel gives a nice aroma. The mango flesh will impart sourness to the curry.
After you cut the eggplant, immerse the cut pieces in a bowl of tap water. You can add a little salt if you like. Immersing the eggplant pieces will prevent them from discoloration due to oxidation.
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| Eggplant sliced and dipped in salt water to prevent discoloration |
Plantain also needs to be peeled. Use gloves when peeling the plantain. A sticky gum in the skin will discolor your hands.You can use a potato peeler to peel it. But it will waste a lot of the skin. Plantain skin is said to be very nutritious. Fried skin also tastes good. Plantain skin has tough fibers on the outer side of the skin. This is all we need to remove. With a knife make a slit at the top on the skin. Holding the slit part together with the knife gently pull the skin towards you. The hard fiber will come out easily exposing a rough surface. Sometimes the fiber may break in the middle before reaching the bottom of the plantain. Then use a potato peeler to remove the smooth green skin from were the fiber broke off.
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| cut pieces of green plantain |
After peeling off all the skin, still using the gloves, slice the plantain into bite-size cubes and put the pieces in a bowl of water. Immersing the plantain slices in the water will prevent them from discoloring due to oxidation.
Cut plantain pieces are immersed in water
Method
This is time consuming because we are going to use Air fryer to fry the vegetables one by one.
Cut plantain pieces are immersed in water
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| Cut plantain pieces are immersed in water |
This is time consuming because we are going to use Air fryer to fry the vegetables one by one.
Next we will fry the vegetables. Eggplant, okra, broad beans, plantain pieces, tindora and onion need to be fried. These are usually deep fried. But you can shallow fry them as well. You will need a lot of oil to fry them. So I fried them in an air-fryer. It took more time than deep frying. You have to fry these vegetables individually because the frying time will vary for each of these vegetables. I coated each batch of vegetables with 1/2 tea spoon of vegetable oil. I fried all of them at 180 degrees Celsius heat setting.
Egg plant took 30 minutes
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| Egg plant in a fryer. |
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| Eggplant before frying salted and squeezed |
Okra 25 minutes
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| Okra in an air frier |
Broad beans 10 minutes
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| Frying broad beans in air frier |
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| Okra and broad beans fried in an air frier |
plantain pieces 20 minutes
Tindora 30 minutes
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| Tindora in the Air fryer |
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| Fried tindora. |
Add the onion 10 minutes.
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| Onion garlic are frying in the fryer |
I did not fry the mango and chyoto. They are not suitable for frying.
The vegetables immersed in water will need to be drained and dried in a kitchen paper towel before frying.
In a large pan add the vegetable oil and heat it up. When the oil is hot, reduce the heat to low and add dry chili and fry for 20 seconds then add cumin seeds, fennel seeds and fenugreek seeds, Fry for 30 seconds.
During the cooking process, you should stir the vegetables frequently to prevent them from burning and also to ensure even cooking of all the vegetables.
Add onion and garlic already half fried in the air fryer and fry for 5 minutes.
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| Adding tomatoes |
Now add all the fried vegetables one by one and stir well and fry for 5 minutes.
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| Adding tindora and okra |
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| stir frying Mixed vegetables |
Add the chayote slices and mix well.
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| Adding chayote |
Add the mango slices
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| Add the mango slices |
Now add curry powder and turmeric powder. Stir to mix well.
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| add curry powder and turmeric powder |
Add water and mix well. Increase the heat and bring to the boil quickly.
Reduce the heat cover the pot with a lid and let it simmer for 15 minutes.
Add tamarind juice and salt and cook for 3 minutes.
Add coconut milk. And cook for 3 minutes.
The curry is ready.
Serve while hot with rice or flat breads like chapatti.
It is a time consuming curry. It is worth the effort as we can have a guilt free curry. I make the curry and freeze for a week in small quantity.
