Pongal Curry

Ingredients
Potato, Raw Banana, beans, Cluster beans, Broad beans, Chow chow, Yam, Carrot
Chick peas, green peas, lima beans
(All vegetables and beans – 3 cups)
Toor dal – 1/2 cup
Turmeric – 1/2 tsp
Tomato -2 small
Tamarind Paste 1/4 tsp

To grind
Red Chilly – 4
Corriander seeds – 1 1/2 tsp
Channa dal – 1/2 tsp
Urad dal – 1/2 tsp
Cumin – 1/2 tsp
Asafoetida a pinch
(fry all the above ingredients without oil and grind them into paste adding coconut)
Coconut – 1/4 cup

Method
Wash and cut all the vegetables equally. If using dried beans saok them for 5 to 6 hours before cooking.
Mix all the vegetables, beans, chopped tomato,toor dal, turmeric and add enough water and pressure cook it. ( leave 2 to 3 whistles)
Open the lid after the pressure is released, add the tamarind juice and cook it for few mins.
Finally add the ground paste and cilantro and allow it to boil for further few mins.
This goes well with ven pongal, tomato rice, kushka.