Kerala Parotta and Veg Kurma

When we want to make something different and yet you know it is time consuming, you make your mind to try this. Kerala Parotta with Vegetable Kurma is a common combination starting from local mess to the decent hotels in most of South India.

Kerala Parotta

Ingredients

• Maida - 2 cups
• Salt - for taste
• Vegetable Oil - 1 tbsp
• Water - 2 cups - Luke warm  

1. Mix the above ingredients and start kneading well into a dough by adding warm water little by little and make it feel soft and elastic.
2. You should continuously and vigorously knead the dough for 10 minutes so that the parotta will come out well.
3. Cover it with a wet cloth and keep aside for one hour.
4. Divide them into equal sizes of balls, around 5-6 nos will come in a small 2 cup maida.
5. Take one of them and apply some oil and use a rolling pin and make it flat as big and thin as possible.
6. Then roll it from one side and make it resemble a pipe and start rolling the pipe from one side to make it coil. I was so involved in trying and did not take any pictures but I shall post then as soon as I try it again. Apply oil when ever it become to roll.
7.  Once the coil shaped dough is done, make them flat that resembles a layered parotha.
8. Cook it on a tawa with some oil and serve.

Vegetable Kurma

Ingredients 

• Onion - 1 no 
• Tomato - 1 no
• Green chilly - 3-4 nos(Some substitute chilly powder instead - 1 tsp)
• Coriander powder - 1 tsp
• Cardamom - 2 nos
• Cloves - 2-3nos
• Cinnamom -2nos
• Poppy seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Coconut - 1/2 cup

Grind the above all into a fine paste.

• Vegetables like Peas, potato, carrot, beans - Cut into small cubes
• Oil
• Jeera - 1/2 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Coriander leaves to garnish

1. Add oil in a cooker and after it turns hot add some jeera. After the jeera spurts, add the ground paste into it and mix well
2. Let the mixture cook till the oil starts to leave.
3. Then add the vegetables and stir well and add 1-2 cups of water and salt.
4.  Close the pressure cooker and let it cook till 2-3 whistles.
5. After cooker is cool, open and stir well and add coriander on top to garnish and kurma is ready to serve. 

This is the easiest way to make kurma which my mom makes and it is easy and really quick. And since I had only Peas and potato, I have added only them.