Vegetable Sagu Recipe | No onion, No Garlic
Ingredients
- Chopped vegetables carrot+beans+potato- 1 to 1.5 cup
- Green peas - 1/4 cup
- Salt- 3/4 to 1 tsp
For Grinding
- Fresh grated coconut- Fistful
- Green chillies- 1 or 2
- Coriander seeds- 2 tsp
- Cumin seeds- 1/2 tsp
- Split black gram lentil- 1 tsp
- Cinnamon- 2" piece
- Cloves- 2 no.
- Black pepper corns- 3 to 4 no.
Seasoning ingredients
- Cooking oil- 4 tsp
- Mustard seeds- 1/2 tsp
- Split black gram lentil- 1/2 tsp
- Curry leaves- few
Instructions
Preparation
- Soak green peas for 4 hours or overnight.
Method
- Heat a cooking pan adding all the seasoning ingredients in the order mentioned, once when the mustard seeds crackle include chopped veggies and soaked peas. Add a cup of water,some salt, then cover with lid and let the vegetables cook till soft in simmer. Stir in between for even cooking.
- Heat a seasoning pan adding split black gram lentil and dry roast till they turn little brown.
- Add all the ingredients under 'for grinding' list in to mixer jar, include dry roasted black gram lentils too. Grind all of them together in to fine paste adding water as required.
- When the vegetable cubes are cooked, include ground paste and rest of the salt. Mix well. Bring it to boil and switch off the flame.
- Best chapati/poori side dish vegetable sagu is ready.
Notes
- You can include other vegetables like cauliflower and turnip cubes too.
- Make sure the vegetables are rightly cooked not too mushy nor too hard.
- The sagu turned little spicy for kids, reduce green chillies or black pepper to reduce spiciness.
- You can use some coriander leaves while grinding to get green colored sagu.
- You can use fried cashews for garnishing.