Veg Kolhapuri – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Take hot water in a bowl and soak few dried red bedgi chilies in it for about 15-20 minutes.
• Heat up oil in a pan and add cauliflower florets first.
• When the flower is about to get fried add carrot, french beans, capsicum and fry them well.
• You can add veggies of your choice.
• Do not overcook the veggies. They should retain their crunch.
• You can shallow fry or blanch the veggies too instead of shallow frying.
• Take the veggies out into a dish.
• Heat up about 1 tsp oil in a pan.
• Add onion, garlic, ginger and fry on medium heat until onion gets nice golden color.
• When onion begins to turn golden add tomatoes, cashew nuts, melon seeds and mix well.
• If melon seeds are unavailable then you can increase cashew nuts.
• Fry until tomatoes are cooked nice and soft.
• Turn off the gas and let the mixture cool down.
• Transfer everything into a blender jar and add soaked chilies in it.
• Take just chilies and not water. Blend everything into a fine paste.
• Do not use water at all while blending. If required you can add just 1-2 tsp water while blending.
• The texture and color of veg kolhapuri depends a lot on the masala that we are blending. So don’t haste while blending the masala.
• Heat up oil in a pan. Add butter and let it melt.
• You can use ghee or even dalda instead of butter. You can skip adding butter too.
• Butter gives a nice texture to any gravy.
• When butter melts add star anise, black cardamom, cinnamon, bay leaves, dried red chilies and fry for about a minute.
• Add the blended masala and fry on medium heat for about 4-5 minutes.
• Add kanda lasun masala, coriander powder, and mix well.
• You can use garam masala, kitchen king masala or any other masala instead of kanda lasun masala.
• Fry everything well for another 3-4 minutes.
• Add hot water to adjust the consistency and mix well.
• Add salt to taste and mix well.
• Cook the gravy for another 4-5 minute.
• Add fried veggies, paneer green peas and mix well.
• If you are using fresh peas then fry them well with other veggies and use.
• Cover and cook the sabzi on medium heat for just 5 minutes.
• Turn off the gas and veg kolhapuri is already.
• Veg kolhapuri goes well with naan, paratha.
• It goes well with jeera rice too.