Adar Torkari (Ginger Based Mixed Vegetable Curry)
Ada is Bengali literally means Ginger. Tarkari means vegetables. Adar tarkari is a vegetable curry that has a strong flavour of ginger, and perhaps derives the name from that. You can go happy go lucky with your choice of vegetables — whatever is available in the market, your pantry or catches your fancy may make way to this curry. However, remember that this one has a flavour distinctively different from the Bengali bitter mixed vegetable version called Shukto — so refrain from using bitter vegetables like bitter-gourd for this dish. Adar Torkari is cooked using very little spices and oil thereby making it a very healthy choice of recipe.
Ingredients –
- Potato
- Brinjal
- Banana Florets
- Pumpkin
- Sweet potato
- Carrots
- Plantain Stem/ Thor
- Ridge Gourd
- Radish
- Flat Beans
- Five spices
- Radhuni /Trachyspermum roxburghianum OR Panch Phoran (Bengali 5 spices mix)
- Asafoetida
- Green chilies
- Salt & sugar
- Turmeric
- Ginger Paste
- Cooking Oil
Preparation –
- Cut all the vegetables in 1″cube size min
- Wash and keep aside
- Heat oil in a pan and temper with five spices, Radhuni /Trachyspermum roxburghianum and a pinch of Asafoetida
- Add the vegetables to this and also slit green chilies
- Add salt and turmeric powder to this and keep stirring well.
- Once they look a little fried add adequate water so that the vegetables are cooked.
- Cover to cook and once almost dry, add ginger paste to this.
- Cook for a while more so that the ginger gets cooked properly.
- Add a little sugar.
- If the gravy is runny, add some corn-flour mixture to this.