This is the most popular and simple curry dish from the North Indian Cuisine. In the fried Mix Vegetable Recipe, all the vegetables are crushed to the gravy and tossed in spices. The gravy and curry dishes are common in various regions of India. These veg mix dishes are nutritious, tasty and filling. This recipe has the typical and traditional Punjabi taste.
Fried Mix Vegetable
- Author: Chandni Agrawal
- Recipe Category: North Indian Dish
- Cuisine: Indian
Description: In the fried Mix Vegetable Recipe, all the vegetables are crushed to the gravy and tossed in spices.This recipe has the typical & traditional Punjabi taste.
Ingredients for Fried Mix Vegetable Recipe:
- Cauliflower Florets – 1/3 cup
- Capsicum (chopped) – 1/3 cup
- Peas – ¼ cup
- Paneer – 1/3 cup
- Carrot (chopped) – 1/3 cup
- Potatoes (chopped) – ½ cup
- French Beans (chopped) – 10 units
- Onions (finely chopped) – 1/3 cup
- Tomatoes (finely chopped) – ½ cup
- Ginger-Garlic paste – 1 tsp.
- Cashew Nuts – 10 pieces
- Green Chillies (chopped) – 2 units
- Asafoetida (Hing) – 1 pinch
- Curd – 2 tbsp.
- Water – ½ cup
- Red Chilli Powder – ½ tsp.
- Coriander Powder – 1 tsp.
- Turmeric Powder (Haldi) – ¼ tsp.
- Garam Masala Powder – ½ tsp.
- Cream – 3 tbsp.
- Oil – 4 tbsp. (use saffola oil)
- Coriander Leaves (chopped) – 1 tsp.
- Salt – As Required
Note: You can use either green or yellow capsicum or you can completely skip them. You can add any vegetable of your choice. You can also increase or decrease quantity of any of the vegetables. Adding paneer is also your choice. You may use fresh or frozen peas.
Method of Making Fried Mix Vegetable:
- Take all the veggies and wash them nicely.
- Take potatoes and peel them.
- Now, chop them into small cubes.
- Take cauliflower and chop them to medium sized florets.
- Collect all the veggies in one bowl and keep them aside.
- Take a non-stick kadai and place it on the stove.
- Now, add oil in the kadai and heat it.
- As the oil become hot, add the chopped mix vegetable in the kadai.
- Sauté them and cook them nicely.
- When the veggies are cooked, transfer them into a plate and remove excess oil from them.
- In the same kadai with oil, add chopped green chillies and cashew nuts.
- Fry them until they become golden.
- As they are cooked, take them in a plate and remove oil from them as well.
- Now, in the same kadai, add asafoetida (hing) and onions.
- Stir them until the colour of onion turns to golden brownish.
- Now, add ginger-garlic paste into it and mix it.
- Add tomatoes in the kadai and sauté.
- Sauté until tomatoes are properly cooked. They will become soft.
- Now, in this gravy, add red chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala powder and coriander powder.
- Mix them nicely.
- Now, add curd in the kadai and mix it. Keep stirring until everything is mixed properly.
- Add water and cream in the kadai and stir it well.
- Keep them flame medium and let the gravy simmer.
- Now, add mix vegetables in the kadai and mix.
- Add fried cashews and chillies in the sabzi and mix them.
- Now, if you want you can add paneer cubes at this stage or you can skip them.
- Mix everything properly and let it cook for 2 minutes.
- After 2 minutes, add salt to the kadai and mix.
- Taste the fried mix vegetable curry and adjust the spices.
- Once cooked, transfer the fried mix vegetable curry in a plate.
- Serve it Hot.
Additional Information:
- Calories: 122 calories
- Total Time: PT45M
- Serves: 4
- Date Published: 2017-02-09
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If you are trying this recipe at home, you can make it as per taste suitable to your palates. This curry has the creamy gravy. It is mildly sweet and less spicy. There is a tiny hint of sourness from the fresh yogurt and bit of tanginess from pulpy tomatoes.
This recipe requires you to chop the veggies and fry them. To avoid frying, you can saute them in less oil. The best alternate way can be to boil, steam or blanch these veggies. While cooking these veggies, you must retain their crunch and color. So it is better to fry them. This recipe is high in calories because of cream and frying of vegetables.
This wonderful mixed vegetable dish with a creamy (Malai) base. It creates a blast of flavors in the mouth in the first bite. This excitement dish is made with simple cooking, easy steps and a handful of authentic ingredients. This dish is highly flavored with the fried curry leaves added into it. This recipe can be prepared with minimal spices. The main flavorings are from curry leaves, Garam masala powder, and pepper.
Remarks:
- You can use any vegetable or remove any vegetable from the mentioned list.
- It is a very flexible dish where you can experiment with the flavors.
- The variation of this recipe can be where the veggies need not be fried.
- The veggies can be cooked directly in the gravy.
- You can skip many spices here as well.
- Skip garlic and potatoes for Jain version.
- If you do not have Curd, you can use homemade Malai or add Milk.
Serving & Garnishing:
- Sprinkle chopped coriander leaves and serve them.
- Enjoy it with any kind of roti or various parathas.
- You can eat the fried mix vegetable curry with any rice, biryani or pulao of your choice.
- Pair this mixed vegetable curry with crunchy Kale Salad.
This Fried Mix Vegetable Recipe is an all-time favorite of many but it is a winter special recipe. All the vegetables are majorly available in the market during the winter. You can get the green veggies as well the vegetables like carrots, capsicum, beans and peas. Even if you do not want to make the curry, then also you can chop and add these raw veggies. The addition of spices and condiments is optional. Add only if you want to make the curry spicy. For the easy and nutritious preparation of the Fried Mix Vegetable, skip adding more spices.
It is the healthy and tummy-filling dish which can be made in a just half-an-hour. To please your guest, you can add paneer cubes and mix. Also, few soaked and chopped cashews will increase the richness of the curry. There is more than one way to make Mix Vegetables. You can prepare dry mix veg or the curry based mix veg.
It is an ideal recipe to choose when you are not in the mood to do the heavy cooking. Also, it comes in help when you are not sure what to cook with specific one ingredient. If you have a lot of vegetables in your pantry and you cannot come to a certain idea, then you prepare fried mix vegetable recipe. This common Punjabi curry dish can be found in easily in the menu of many Indian restaurants.