EASY WHITE KURMA (in pressure cooker)

Ingredients

To pressure cook

1 cup.       -  cauliflower florets
1/4 cup.    -  carrots
1/4 cup.    _  beans
2 nos.       -   medium size potatoes
1/4 cup.    - fresh/frozen peas
3 nos.       -  onions
1/4 tsp.    -  turmeric powder

To grind

 (1)
2/3 nos.        - green chillies

2 inch.      - ginger
4 to 6.       - cloves of garlic

(2)
8 to 10.     - cashews/almonds
1 tsp.        - poppy seeds
1 1/2 tsp.  - fennel seeds
1/4 cup.   -  shredded coconut
1/4 cup.  -   curd (not sour)

To saute

2 tsp.       -  oil
2 nos.      -  cloves
1 small piece - cinnamon
1 no.       - bay leaf
2 nos.     - cardamom

Salt to taste


1.  Cut the vegetables into small pieces.

2.   Grind the (1) and (2) under the heading ' to grind' to smooth paste separately and keep aside.

 3. Heat the oil in a pressure cooker and add the oil.  When the oil is hot add all the ingredients under 'to saute'.   Saute for few seconds and add cut onions.  Again saute till onions are cooked and do not burn the onions.   Then add the ground paste given under (1) and saute till raw smell of the ground paste goes.  Add all the cut vegetables  turmeric powder, 1 1/2 cups of water, add the ground paste under (2), salt to taste and close the lid.  Pressure cook for 1 whistles (instapot 0 minutes pressure cook and release immediately) and switch off the flame.  Wait till the pressure releases naturally.