Bengali Style Labra Tarkari Recipe / Labra Tarkari / Bengali Style Mix Vegetables Curry Recipe

Ingredients :

1. Potato - 1 ( Peel the potato of skin and cut into small cubes )
2. Cauliflower - 1 cup  (  Small  Separated florets )
3. Eggplant - 1 ( remove the top of eggplant and cut into cube )
4. Red Pumpkin - 250 gm  ( peel the red pumpkin and cut into small cube )
5. Fresh coriander leaves , finely chopped  - 3 table spoon
6. Radish - 2 ( Peel the radish of few portion and cut into small cubes )
7. Ridge gourd - 2 ( peel the ridge gourd of hard portion and remove the top of ridge gourd and cut into  small  cube  pieces )
8. Pointed gourd / potol - 4 - 5 ( peel the pointed gourd of few portion and cut into small cube pieces  )

9. Ripe tomato - 1 ( cut into finely chopped )
10. Ginger paste - 1 table spoon
11. Cumin powder - 1 small tea spoon
12. Coriander powder - 1 small tea spoon
13. Kashmiri dry red chili powder - 1 tea spoon
14. Yard long beans / bor-boti  - 20 gm ( cut into small pieces )
15. Panch phoron  or bengali five spices  - 1/2 tea spoon or a pinch of panch phoron
16. Sugar - 1 teaspoon
17. Turmeric powder - 1 tea spoon
18. Salt to taste
19. Oil As required
20. Water As Required 

Methods :

1. Wash and clean  cut vegetables under running water . Collect them  and  put  the vegetables in a bowl . Add  water in the bowl  . Keep a side .

2. Take a large wok . Heat oil in a large wok . When oil is completely hot . Now add a pinch of panch phoron  and stir for few seconds  on high  flame . Once panch phoron is roasted and starts to splutter .

3. Now add  cut vegetables into a wok  and mix well .

4. Also add chopped ripe tomatoes , sprinkle  salt  all over the vegetables  and mix well well on high flame . Let it cook for about 10 minutes . Cover the wok .

5. Once vegetables are tender  . Now add  turmeric powder and 1 table spoon of sugar . Saute till raw smell goes off from vegetables .

6. Next also add  ginger paste , cumin powder , coriander powder , kashmiri dry red chili powder and fresh  finely chopped coriander leaves  . Mix well . Saute till separates oil from masala .

7. Pour 2 cups of water . Mix well . Uncover the wok . Cook for 10 minutes .

8. After 10 minutes , meanwhile vegetables or curry is done . Once vegetables are tender and soft . Gravy is thicken . Maximum water is evaporated  from curry .

9. Now labra tarkari is ready .

10 . Switch off the flame . Pour the curry into a serving bowl .

11. Serve hot with rice or Indian breads .