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Santula (Odia Light Sauteed Mixed Vegetables)

Santula (Odia Light Sauteed Mixed Vegetables) is East Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Easy Heart healthy High fiber Diabetic friendly Vegetarian Vegan Halal Gluten free Dairy free Pescatarian

Ingredients

  • 1 potato, cubed
  • 1/2 cup eggplant, cubed
  • 1/2 cup pumpkin, cubed
  • 1 raw banana (plantain), cubed
  • 2 green chilies, slit
  • 1 tbsp mustard oil
  • 1/2 tsp panch phoron (five-spice blend)
  • 1/2 tsp turmeric
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 tsp salt

How to cook it

  1. Heat the mustard oil in a pot, keeping it light since santula is meant to use minimal oil, and temper with the panch phoron.
  2. Add the potato, pumpkin, and raw banana, and saute for 3 minutes.
  3. Add the eggplant, turmeric, salt, and slit green chilies, and pour in the water.
  4. Simmer uncovered on low heat until the vegetables are just tender and the liquid reduces to a light gravy, about 15 minutes.
  5. Serve warm, the gentler, less-bitter everyday cousin of shukto that Odia households make often.

Serve it with

A East Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Santula (Odia Light Sauteed Mixed Vegetables), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Santula (Odia Light Sauteed Mixed Vegetables) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Santula (Odia Light Sauteed Mixed Vegetables)
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.

Calorie band
Light
Protein
Low
Food groups it covers
Vegetables
How this was set
Hand audited

When to cook it

Santula (Odia Light Sauteed Mixed Vegetables) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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