Mixed Veg Curry is a soupy, saucy, creamy recipe made from a combination of chopped, sliced, or cubed veggies like cauliflower, carrots, cabbage, French beans, and peas. Most Indian mixed vegetable dishes are made by sautéing the vegetables on the right amount of heat to achieve the exact texture (to avoid burning), and then combining them with a delicious, saucy curry to create a healthy, appetising, tangy dip. Mixed veg curry is a popular side dish served at parties and get-togethers with paratha and raita.
Basic information
The regular Mixed Veg Curry is a nut-free, gluten-free, soy-free, low-fat, low-calorie variant made from a combination of basic tastes of the cooked vegetables used in the preparation. Several dishes are equally healthy, similar in composition, but this one has a unique, fresh taste.
Indian restaurants offer a creamy, fragrant vegetable Korma or a buttery, nutty, flavoursome mix Veg version called Navratan Korma (Navratan means 9 gems). Such mixed vegetable curries are deceptively decadent and secretly healthy, packed with veggies like carrots, peas, potatoes, tomatoes and bell peppers, all in a silky sauce of milk cream or coconut milk, ginger, garlic, cumin and turmeric.
Certain mix veg korma recipes are inspired by Mughal cuisine, such as the Dum Aloo, prepared on a slow flame with baby potatoes, or the semi-dry mix Veg Jalfrezi.
Indian restaurants serve a wide variety of vegetarian dishes, such as Mix veg kofta, in which vegetable dumplings are cooked and simmered in an onion-tomato gravy. Pav Bhaji is a tangy, spicy mixture of nutritious seasonal vegetables served with bread or Pav.
Certain mix-veg dishes are widely prepared during the festive season without adding onion and garlic, and served as part of the pooja or vrat thali, as the Annakoot sabzi prepared on Diwali and the Navratan sabzi, made in north India with veggies, nuts and dry fruits, as a religious offering.
At home, one requires a variety of vegetables and basic spices like turmeric, coriander, garam masala, and green chilli to keep the dish mildly spiced. Dry Fenugreek leaves or freshly cut cilantro leaves can be added to the mixed veg curry to get the fresh aroma. The basic ingredients used for making the gravy are tomato, onion and ginger.
Mixed Vegetable Curry is a delicious and healthy curry recipe that can be served with Indian breads like chapati, paratha, or Poori, or with rice dishes like jeera rice and lemon rice. [Poori or puri, a puffy Indian fried bread, is considered appropriate for certain varieties of curry mix vegetable dishes like veg korma.] Or one can have a mixed egg curry and a side dish like dal tadka with plain rice for dinner.