Vegetable Stew (in coconut milk)

This is a Kerala style mixed vegetable stew in a coconut milk gravy. This versatile stew which could be served with appam, idiyappam or chapathi.
Recipe courtesy: Sarah's Vazhayila

This is a very similar version of vegetable stew that my mom makes. Here turmeric is added and hence the color. Vegetables, along with onion, ginger and green chilli, are cooked first and garam masala (cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, star anise), coconut mik or whole milk are added towards the end. Finally, stew is tempered with mustard seeds, whole red pepper, Malabar leaves (Indian bay leaves) and curry leaves.