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Writer's pictureNandini R Kini

Katpadi Style Gajbaje

Updated: Apr 16, 2021

Gajbaje is a very simple and healthy Konkani dish. It is generally prepared during special occasions like festivals, marriages because it doesn't contain onion and garlic. Enjoy this dish, wherein each vegetable contributes its own flavor.



Ingredients

1/2 cup raw jackfruit cut into cubes

1/2 cup brinjal / Mattu Gulla cut into cubes

1/4 cup yellow pumpkin cut into cubes

1/4 cup tendle / gherkins cut into halves

1/2 cup alsande / long yard beans cut into 1-inch pieces

1/2 cup magge/ yellow cucumber cut into chunks

1/2 raw banana, peeled and cut into cubes

Salt to taste

Jaggery to taste


For the tempering:


3 tsp oil

2 tsp mustard

2 sprigs of curry leaves

2-3 methi/fenugreek seeds


FOR THE MASALA PASTE YOU NEED:


1 cup fresh coconut gratings

5-6 red chillies

3 tsp coriander / daniya seeds

2 tsp urad dal

2 tsp raw rice

1/2 tsp methi/fenugreek seeds

chickpea size tamarind

1 tsp oil

In a pan heat oil and roast red chillies and remove from the pan

In the same pan put daniya seeds, urad dal, methi seeds, and roast on a low flame till you get a nice aroma and it turns light brown

Grind roasted ingredients with coconut gratings and tamarind, adding water/

Make a semi coarse masala paste and keep aside


Procedure


  • Wash cut veggies and cook them with little water and salt in the cooker

  • Cook brinjal and pumpkin on the stovetop as it cooks fast. Don't put it in the cooker.

  • Put all the cooked veggies in a broad vessel, add salt, jaggery, ground masala paste and give a good boil for 10 mins

  • Turn off the flame and add the tempering, serve hot with rice and dal.



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