Turnip Tomato Curry

This is simple and easy curry recipe. In this dish, turnip pieces cooked and sautéed with spices and coconut paste. It goes very well with steamed white rice, chapatti and bread.

Ingredients

Chopped Turnip – 1 Cup

Chopped Tomato – 2 (medium sized)

Finely Chopped Onion – 1 (big)

Turmeric Powder – ¼ tsp

Chilli Powder – 1 tsp

Salt to taste

To Temper

Oil – 1 tsp

Mustard Seeds – ¼ tsp

Cumin Seeds – ½ tsp

Urad Dhal – ½ tsp

Bengal Gram – ½ tsp

Peanut – 2 tsp

Curry Leaves – few

Dry Red Chilli - 2

For Paste

Grated Coconut – a handful

Cumin Seeds – ½ tsp

Peeled Shallots – 3

Peeled Garlic – 2 Cloves

Method

Cook chopped turnip pieces along with required salt and required water, then keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan, add the tempering ingredients one by one and saute it for few seconds.

Add the chopped onions and fry for 2 minutes. Add tomato pieces and fry until it becomes mushy.

In a blender add the ingredients which are labelled under “for paste” and grind it as fine paste.

Then add the cooked turnip, chilli powder, turmeric powder and coconut paste then mix well. Saute it for another 3 minutes on medium flame.

Switch off the flame and serve with steamed white rice or chapatti.