Aloo Gobi Matar gravy

Aloo gopi matar gravy is a delicious, healthy and lightly spiced gravy with potato, green peas and cauliflower.

This is a coconut based gravy.

This is my inspiration from North Indian recipe. In North India people love aloo, gopi and matar combination also it is a standard dish in many restaurant menu. Here I have made this combinational gravy with coconut base and it is the best for large families as coconut base increases the quantity of the gravy. Let’s see how to prepare.

Ingredients:/serves 4 nos

Green mutter 1 cup

1 Potato chopped into cubes

Cauliflower 1 cup florets

1 onion finely chopped

1 chopped tomato

4 green chillies

4 garlic cloves

Spice powders:

2 tablespoon Chillipowder

2 tablespoon coriander powder

½ tablespoon garam masala

½ tablespoon turmeric

Seasoning ingredients:

A 1 tspn fennel seed, 2 cloves, 2 cardomom and curry leaves.

To grind:

1/2 shell shredded coconut

1 tablespoon cumin seed

How to make aloo gopi matar gravy?

·        Heat oil in cooker and add all the seasoning ingredients. Then add chopped onion, green chillies and garlic cloves and sauté it until the onion turns transparent.

·        Next add chopped tomatoes and sauté it.

·        Add all the spice powder and sauté for 1 minutes.

·        Add green peas and chopped potatoes and sauté it.

·        Now grind the coconut and cumin seeds and make it into paste and add it into the cooker and stir the mixture.

·        Add required amount of water. The gravy should be neither thick nor watery. Also add salt as required.

·        Close the lid of the cooker and cook for 2 whistles.

·        After the pressure has been released open the lid. It releases nice aroma.

·        Now add the cauliflower into the gravy and cook for 1 whistle.

·        Aloo gopi matar gravy is ready. It is a tough competitor of non-veg gravy.

It can be paired with rice, roti, idli, dosa, idiyappam, puttu etc.

Why should you add cauliflower at the end?

If we add cauliflower with other ingredients, in 2 whistles it gets finely cooked and becomes like a paste changing the texture of the gravy. So it has to be added at the end and cooked for 1 whishtle.

How to make the coconut paste?

·        Grate the coconut from the shell using a coconut scraper or else we can directly scrap it using a knife and cut into small pieces.

·        Now put the coconut scrap and 1 spoon of cumin seed into a mixer jar and grind it into a paste.

·        This coconut paste is the base of the gravy. In down south most of the gravies are done with coconut as the base.

What additions can be done to enhance its taste?    

·        Ginger garlic paste enhances the taste of the gravy. After onion is sauté we can add ginger garlic paste and sauté until the raw smell of the paste disappears.

·        We can also skip adding cauliflower since it takes one more step for preparation and then it becomes aloo, matar gravy.

Health benefits of Aloo gopi matar gravy:

·        Fresh green pea is rich in folic acid, vitamins minerals and anti-oxidants. It is rich in polyphenol anti-oxidant.

·        Potatoes are rich in carbohydrates and also it is said that it is rich in vitamin b6 which is essential for building new body cells.

·        Cauliflower is rich in folate and dietary fibre wich supports the digestive system. Also it is said that cauliflower is a good detoxifier.

Hope you like this gravy.

Also view:gobi matar sabzi

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