
This is a satvick preparation, no oil, onion, garlic, chillies. Can be had as a fastiing food as well.
Ingredients
- 2 Raw green bananas
- ¼ kg. yam (suran, soorn, elephants foot)
- ½ to 1 cup boiled and peeled bikna (jackfruit seeds) or substitute with boiled red kidney beans
- 1 cup fresh grated coconut
- ½ tsp. cumin seeds
- ½ tsp. pepper corns
- 2 tsp. turmeric powder (1 tsp when boiling the vegetable & one tsp to add when grinding)
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- 1 tsp. salt
Method
- Clean and cut the raw bananas and yam into cubes and immerse in water until required.
- Boil with water, 1 tsp. turmeric, salt and curry leaves, till tender.
- Boil the jackfruit seed, cool and peel, boil red kidney beans if using.
- Add to the yam and plantains.
- Grind the coconut, cumin, pepper corns, turmeric powder to a smooth paste.
- When the vegetables are tender, add the curry paste, mix well and heat through.
- The curry paste is not to be cooked too much just heated through, so make sure the vegetables are cooked well before adding the curry paste.
- You may mash some yam pieces against the sides of the pan to thicken the gravy if you must.
- Serve hot.