Vegetable salna

    After coming to US,we miss many thing. One among it ,is roadside parotta and yummy salna. Being a vegetarian, i dnt prefer to make non veg salna to my husband( as i am lazy to prepare a separate gravy for me. So i was searching for vegetarian version of salna. I got this recipe from online and i can say ,so far i have made it more than 30 times. It taste yummy and satisfies both vegetarian and non vegetarian people. The gravy will taste like non veg salna but prepared with vegetables.

Ingredients :

To grind :
Onion - 2 no
Tomato - 1 medium
Garlic -  3
Ginger - 1 1/2 inch
Coriander seed -  4  tbsp
Jeera - 1 tsp
Black pepper - 1 tsp
Sombu - 1/2 tsp
Red chilli - 4
Pottukadalai - 1 tsp
Pattai - small piece
Cloves - 3
Cardamom - 1 or cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Other:
Carrot - 1
Beans - 5
Cauliflower - small bunch
Potato - half
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp


Tampering :
Mustard - 1 tsp
Broken urad dhal - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves - 2 stem
Red chilli - 2
Hing - a pinch.

Recipe:

 *Grind everything which is given under  "To grind " section with enough water. The consistency should be like a coarse paste.
*Chop all vegetables into big pieces.
                      Take a small cooker,pour the grinded mixture ,vegetables,turmeric powder and salt.Cook for 2 whistle.In a small kadai,add oil,mustard seed,broken urad dhal,curry leaves,red chilli and hing.Mix this tampering to salna and stir it. Close the lid for sometime so that the aroma of hing mix well with salna.

Note :

 * Serve this salna for chappathi and parotta.
 * I just love to make parotta into small small pieces and spread it in a plate.Pour the salna on top ,mix well and have it .Yummy .
* This salna taste yummier when the masala of salna soaked in vegetables.So this salna taste even better when had next day.We used to make kothu parotta with this salna first day and next day have it like the one which i said above.