Name: Spiced vegetables over rice
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: 1 small turnip, peeled and cut into bitesize pieces; 115 g/4 oz carrots, peeled and cut into bitesize pieces; 1-2 fresh green chillies, chopped (deseeded if preferred); 115 g/4 oz baby spinach leaves; 2.5 ml/½ tsp cumin seeds; 2 whole dried red chillies; 2.5 ml/½ tsp black or brown mustard seeds; ½ small green cabbage; 45 ml/3 tbsp mustard oil, plus extra for drizzling (optional); 2.5 ml/½ tsp salt, or to taste; Plain Boiled Rice, to serve

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Complete Indian Regional Cookbook

By Mridula Baljekar

Published 2017

About

Tarkari Bhate is one of many tasty Bengali dishes made using steamed vegetables and lentils, which are spiced up and served with rice. The distinctive taste in Bengali cuisine comes from mustard oil.

Ingredients

115 g/4 oz carrots, peeled and cut into bitesize pieces
1 small turnip, peeled and cut into bitesize pieces<

Method

Place the carrots, turnip and cabbage in an electronic steamer, or in a steamer basket placed over a pan of simmering water, and steam until tender but firm.
Heat the oil in a frying pan until smoking point is reached. Switch off the h

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