Puri-Sagu Recipe | Mix Vegetable Saagu Recipe | Simple Sagu Recipe

Puri-Sagu' Recipe | Mix Vegetable Saagu Recipe | Simple Poori Sagu Recipe 

Simplest and easiest homemade traditional food with stepwise picture it goes well with puri, rava idli, set dosa and also for chapatis 

Looking for easy sagu recipe? Here’s how to cook sagu, with veggies and simple ingredients. One of the best simple, healthy recipes from Karnataka 

This is one of the Karnataka’s most popular dishes and we often end up ordering "Puri Sagu" at restaurants. Puri sagu and puri palya are the twin dishes – switched between one of them at least once a week at homes. Each of these, pairs beautiful with favorite puris. Sagu is so good and kids friendly this any-time favourite side is easy to prepare, yet the simply pressure cooked veggies look appealing enough to serve guests or send to carry-in lunch box for kids. So, here is our favorite side dish sagu in today’s menu.

Here I am sharing you the easiest, simplest way to cook mix vegetable saagu recipe in the pressure cooker. There is no onions, tomatoes, ginger, garlic, or spicy garam masala in the ingredients list, just keep it buttery and mild – which goes well balancing with crispy puris.

Mixed vegetables go in this simple poori sagu recipe along with some coconut, green chillies, jeera ground to smooth paste, which gives flavour and buttery texture to gravy.  

Why do we have to make things complicated, when we can - with a simple and easy recipe in hand for a delicious breakfast – come on lets start cooking …

This recipe also reminds me of the days when we were kids, when we all gathered at our grandparents house for any occations: we kids would fight for the first poori, not sure why was that fight for the first poori?  But, once we get it in our hands we share among us, we get our share of a small tiny bit, with which we were very happy for, and rest of the hot puris served in plates.

Ingredients for grinding

1.  Coconut  ½  cup
2.  Fried chana gram – 3 spns
3.  Green chillies – 2 -3
4.  Jeera / cumin seeds – ½  spn
5.  Turmeric powder – ¼ spn
6.  Coriander leaves - few strands

       

     Vegetables for Mix Vegetable Saagu   

1.  Carrots
2.  Potatoes
3.  Seeme badhanekai (kannada) / Chayote Squash/ Chow chow
4.  Beans 

       

        
                   

Method - Puri Sagu recipe

1.  Wash  and Chop all the vegetables
2.  Grind all the ingredients listed for grinding
3.  Heat a cooker and add oil
4.  When oil gets hot add mustard ¼ spn, curry leaves few
5.  Wait until mustard splutters and then add all the chopped vegetables and turmeric and sauté for 3 mins
6.  Add the grounded coconut masala, required water and salt to this and mix well
7.  Cover the cooker lid and put on the cooker weight and give just one whistle
8.  Open the cooker lid only after the pressure escapes

Knowledge corner

Chayote (Sechium edule- binomial name) also known as mirliton squash, belongs to the gourd family, cucurbitaceae. Chayote was introduced in 15 – 16 th century. Although botanically classified as fruits, chayote squashes are prepared like vegetables. It looks like green pear. In India the whole vegetable is used to make curries or it is sautéed. In Bengal young branches are used into preparing Shukto.

In Karnataka, it is referred to as seeme badanekaayi (ಸೀಮೆ ಬದನೇಕಾಯಿ) or "Bangalore brinjal or vankayya". It is used up in palya, Sambar, Kootu, Majjige Huli and Saagu. This is a watery vegetable mostly used in summer.

Reference or source of information

Chayote^[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chayote

Method with Step by Step Pictures for Simple 

1. Wash  and Chop all the vegetables

2. Grind all the ingredients listed for grinding

3. Heat a cooker and add oil.  4. add mustard once oil is heated up 

5. Wait until mustard splutters and then add all the chopped vegetables and turmeric and sauté for 3 mins

6. Add the grounded coconut masala, required water to this, add salt and mix well 





7. Cover the cooker lid and put on the cooker weight and give just one whistle 8. Open the cooker lid only after the pressure escapes 

 And the delicious Mix Vegetable Sagu is Ready to be served with Hot Pooris

Delicious Sagu served with Hot Pooris

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