Breakfast
Vegetable stew
Mild coconut-milk stew of potato, carrot, and beans — the vegetarian partner to appam.
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Vegetable stew (veg ishtu) cooks mixed vegetables in thin coconut milk with pepper, clove, and cinnamon. It is the meatless counterpart of chicken stew, poured over appam, idiyappam, or bread at breakfast and dinner.
Course
Breakfast / dinner
Region
Statewide
Typically with
Appam, idiyappam, bread
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