recipes with beetroot | beetroot kurma is a perfect side dish for chapati, In addition to this, it is packed with more nutrients. This kurma is rich in color also the tastiest side dish. Adding cashews improves the texture and taste as well. Moreover, It will have a little sweet taste of beetroot that makes this dish completely unique in taste
It is pressure cooking method, so it can be made very easily for the biginners.
Alternatives:
- Even the Cashews can be replaced with roasted gram
- Whereas the whole spice mixture can be replaced with a teaspoon of garam masala
- If you don’t want to add the green chilies while grinding, you can saute with onions even in the pressure cooker.
Also, I have added 3 small green chilies, you can adjust this number to one if it is a big sized chili
Apart from beetroot poriyal, there are less recipes with beetroot to make. this recipe makes us to use up beetroot in a quite amount in our diet. Because beetroot has so many health benefits.
Let’s see how to make recipes with beetroot | beetroot kurma
Beetroot kurma
Ingredients
For Grinding:
- ½ cup coconut (shredded)
- 3 green chilly
- 10 cashews / 4 tsp roasted gram
- 1 tsp fennel seeds
- 1 tsp poppy seeds
- water little bit to grind
To cook:
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 star anise
- 3 cloves
- 3 cardamom
- 1 kapok bud(Marathi mokku)
- 1 bay leaf
- few curry leaves
- 1 onion (chopped)
- 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste / crushed
- 250 gm beetroot
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
- 1 cup water
- Coriander leaves for garnish
- salt to taste
Instructions
For grinding:
- In a blender jar, add, coconut, green chilly, cashews/roasted gram, fennel seeds, poppy seeds. Add a little bit of water
- blend into a fine paste and keep aside
To cook:
- Firstly, Heat the oil in a pressure cooker, add all the spices(bay leaf, cloves, cinnamon, kapok bud, cardamom, star anise, and curry leaves
- Add chopped onion and ginger-garlic, Saute it till turns into translucent
- Now add in chopped beetroot and mix well
- Put turmeric powder and salt
- Pour a cup of water, cover the lid, pressure cook for 2 whistles
- After pressure released, open the lid, Add the ground paste, and mix well
- Bring into a boil and turn off the flame
- Finally, garnish with coriander leaves.
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