Khatkhate

As per the Hindu calender Holi is celebrated on Falgun pornima ( full moon day of the last month of the year). The next day of Holi is called as 'Dhulivandan' or 'DhuLwad'. The fifth day followed by Holi is the 'Rangpanchmi' ...the festival of colors. As there is no holiday on this day in India, we celebrate the same on 'Dhulivandan' as it is declared as chutti.

I cooked this 'khatkhate' खतखते to mark this occasion. We make this during Ganapati festival. It is a combination of various tubers(carbohydrates) with toor dal(proteins) and coconut (fats) with some spices. The consistency is semisolid and can be combined with rice or chapati or consumed all by
itself.

Ingredients
100 gmssuran(elephant foot yam)
1 batata(potato)
1 RataLe (sweet potato)
1 Shirale(ridge gourd)
2-3 aLuchya mundlya (colocasia corms)
100 gms Lal bhopLa (red pumpkin)
1 kachche keLe(raw banana)
3-4 beans farasabi (french beans)
All these vegetables in very small proportion so altogether it comes out to 300-350 gms.




1/2 cup toordal ( cooked in 1 cup of water in pressure cooker)
2 tsp jaggery


Masala to be ground in a grinder
1/4 cup freshly grated coconut
1 tbl sp coriander seeds
2 tsp tamarind paste
1 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp red chili powder
4-5 triphaLe/tirphaLe/teppal( to be soaked in 1/4 cup water )

Garnishing
2 tsp coconut oil

Method

• Pressure cook toor dal in a cooker.
• Wash clean the vegetables. Peel off the skin of suran ,banana and aluchya mundlya. Take off the ridges of the ridge gourd. I use potato,sweet potato, pumpkin by washing thoroughly. Chop the vegetables into medium size pieces.
• If chopped vegetables comes out to one bowl then boil 2 and a half bowls of water in a kadhai.
• Add all the vegetables in the kadhai and cover with lid. Let it cook on low flame.
• Grind the masala.
• Add it to the cooked vegetables.Mix well.Let the masala blend with the vegetables for few minutes.
• Add jaggery and salt to taste.
• Pour coconut oil with spoon over the vegetable.
• Serve hot with rice.

Note
While grinding the masala, first grind coconut,coriander seeds,tamarind,turmeric,chili powder to a finepaste and add tirphale at the end and run the mixer once.