Button Mushroom Curry

Ingredients

• • Onions - 2
• • Button mushroom - 400 grams
• • Oil (for frying) - as required
• • Salt - as required
• • Mustard seeds - ½ teaspoon
• • Curry leaves - 1 sprig
• • Asafoetidas - a pinch

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Ingredients For Grinding To A Paste

• • Red chillies - 8
• • Dhania - 1 tablespoon
• • Jeera - 1 teaspoon
• • Pepper - ¼ teaspoon
• • Cashew nuts - 10
• • Tomatoes - 2
• • Coconut (grated) - ½ cup
• • Onion (roasted) - 1
• • Jaggery - 1 teaspoon (optional)

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Method

• 1. Peel and chop onions finely .
• 2. Wash mushrooms properly and cut into medium sized pieces.
• 3. Heat oil in a broad frying pan, add mustard, curry leaves and then asafoetida.
• 4. When it splutters add onions and fry till transparent.
• 5. Put mushrooms and stir constantly till it is fried.
• 6. Roast the ingredients listed "for grinding to a paste" with a little oil and grind to paste.
• 7. Add ground paste with enough salt and jaggery (optional) with little water.
• 8. Cook till the gravy becomes thick.
• 9. Serve with rice flour chapatis or pulkas.