Kerala Wedding Coconut Curry

A delicately spiced dish of mixed vegetables colored with turmeric and enriched with yogurt, as prepared by the wedding cooks of Kerala, a southwestern coastal state. Many Indian vegetables, as might be expected of a nation so dependent on the fruits of the earth, are gloriously unfamiliar outside the region. Among them are all manner of gourds both bitter and mild, drumstick beans, jack-plum seeds (a little like chestnuts), mangos and bananas eaten green, weirdly shaped and oddly flavored