Today’s recipe is a curry recipe of my mother that I really like. It is a simple and delicious curry.

Vegetable coconut curry or Vellai curry, as it is known in Tamil

Time taken: 20 – 25 mins

Serves 4

Ingredients:

• Cauliflower – ½ cup, chopped
• Potato – ½ cup, chopped
• Green peas – ¼ cup
• Carrot – ½ cup, chopped
• Onion – ¼, chopped
• Chilli – 1, chopped
• Coconut milk – ¼ cup
• Pepper – ½ tsp
• Lime juice – 1 tsp, or more as per taste

Method:

1. Heat 1 tsp oil and sauté the chopped onion and chilli for a minute in a pan.
2. Then, add all the chopped vegetables to the pan along with 1 cup of water and cook the vegetables for 10 mins.
3. Add the coconut milk to the pan and cook the curry for another 5 mins.
4. Add the pepper and cook for a couple of minutes before removing from heat.
5. Squeeze some fresh lime/ lemon juice over the vegetable curry and serve with rice.

Recipe source: Raji Thillainathan.