Navrathna Kurma

Ingredients

Mixed deiced vegetables

(potatoes, cauliflower, carrot,, beans, peas) -    2 cups

Onions – 2

Ginger, garlic paste – 1 ½ tsp

Tomatoes – 3

Paneer or cottage cheese – 100 gms

Turmeric powder – ½  tsp

Coriander powder – 2 tsp

Garam masala – 1 ½ tsp

Milk – 1 cup

Chilli  powder – 1 ½ tsp

Cream  – 2 tbl.sp

Ghee or butter – 3 tbl.sp

Salt as per taste

Raisins, cashews, pine apple pieces, tutti fruity  - ½  cup  (optional)

Garam  masala is a mixed powdered form of cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and black peeper)

Method

Cut paneer into small pieces and deep fry it. Remove from fire and keep aside. Blanch tomatoes by first putting in hot boiling water and then immediately adding to cold water. Remove the skin, Mash these tomatoes and keep aside. Boil vegetables given and keep aside.

Grate onion, heat ghee in a deep frying pan, then add these onions, then ginger garlic paste and cook on a low flame till the ghee separates from it. Then add mashed tomatoes’, coriander powder, turmeric powder, chilli  powder, garam  masla and salt. Then add boiled vegetables, let it cook till the gravy thickens. Then add milk and cream. Cook for few minutes, and then add paneer and dry fruits to it before removing from fire. Fry cashew nuts in ghee and add to it. Decorate it with coriander leaves.