Mixed vegetable thoran recipe with step by step pictures. This delicious mixed veg thoran taste delicious with kulambu and rice.
Mixed Vegetable Thoran
If you have some left over vegetables lying around,Go and pick everything to make this lovely dish. This is also called as Thoran here. But this dish is quite different, It is a Thoran with Aarthi’s Twist in it. The twist comes from peanuts and frying the coconuts.This dish looks colourful which I always love. The other special thing is, It can go as a great filling for roti rolls. So hope you loved it. So here you go for the recipe with step by step pictures.
Ingredients for vegetable thoran
- Carrot-2 large chopped
- Beans-20 chopped
- Coconut-3 tblspn grated
- Peanuts-3 tblspn roughly crushed
- Mustard seeds / Kaduku-1 tsp
- Cumin seeds / Jeerakam-1 tsp
- Urad dal / Ulundu parupu-1 tsp
- Channa dal / Kadala parupu-1 tsp
- Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya podi- ¼ tsp
- Oil-1 tblspn
- Curry leaves-1 spring
- Salt to taste
How to Make Mixed Veg Thoran
- Microwave chopped carrot and beans by adding some water and salt for 5 mins.
- Heat oil in a kadai, add in mustard seeds, channa dal, urad dal, cumin seeds, peanuts, hing, curry leaves and mix well.
- Now add in coconut and mix for 1 min.
- Now add in cooked veggies and mix well. Add a splash of water and mix well.
- Cover and cook for 10 mins on a very slow flame.By which time the veggies must have absorbed all flavours and cooked completely.
- Serve this with rice and dal.
📖 Recipe

Mixed Vegetable Thoran Recipe | Veg Thoran Recipe
Ingredients
- Carrot-2 large chopped
- Beans-20 chopped
- Coconut-3 tblspn grated
- Peanuts-3 tblspn roughly crushed
- Mustard seeds / Kaduku-1 tsp
- Cumin seeds / Jeerakam-1 tsp
- Urad dal / Ulundu parupu-1 tsp
- Channa dal / Kadala parupu-1 tsp
- Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya podi- ¼ tsp
- Oil-1 tblspn
- Curry leaves-1 spring
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Microwave chopped carrot and beans by adding some water and salt for 5 mins.
- Heat oil in a kadai, add in mustard seeds, channa dal, urad dal, cumin seeds, peanuts, hing, curry leaves and mix well.
- Now add in coconut and mix for 1 min.
- Now add in cooked veggies and mix well. Add a splash of water and mix well.
- Cover and cook for 10 mins on a very slow flame.By which time the veggies must have absorbed all flavours and cooked completely.
- Serve this with rice and dal..
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Mixed Veg Thoran Step by Step
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Take all your ingredients. Sorry I have wrongly tagged curry leaves as beans |
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Chop up your vegetables |
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Take that in a microwave safe bowl, add some salt and some water. Cover and cook. |
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Till perfectly cooked |
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Crackle some mustard seeds in oil |
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add in channa dal... |
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add in cumin seeds |
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also your peanuts |
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add some hing. |
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and your curry leaves |
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add in your coconut |
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mix well |
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add in cooked vegetables |
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mix well.. |
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add a splash of water...Cover and simmer for a while |
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all done... |
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Look at the colours |
Trini Altea
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Suzi
I really like your spice blend with the addition of peanuts and coconut. Lovely colorful photos. I could eat that right now.
Sandra Batista
Uma mistura de legumes bem saborosa!
Beijinhos
Archana
Looks very tasty.
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Madhavi
Simple and satisfying meal...
Sarah
veggies with peanuts mmm... so good.. i love peanuts!
Krithi's Kitchen
Carrot beans poriyal is an alltime favorite... adding peanuts is an interesting twist..
Krithi's Kitchen
Event: Serve It - Steamed
Dzoli
Since i follow your blog I have become regular by Spice Palace a shop that sell Indian spices.The lady gives me always good tips too.She was teasing me other day ..if I had Indian boy friend that I show so much interest in this type of cuisine;)Shall I tell you:No I am in love with (recepies) From a lovely lady:))
Emily of The Best of this Life
Aarthi, as usual - this looks sooo good! And you reminded me that I have some shredded coconut I need to use - a perfect stir fry 🙂
RAKS KITCHEN
That's wonderful stir fry! healhty one!
Aarthi
Trini Altea thankyou so much for your lovely comment dear
Suzi..yes you could do it dear
Sandra..thankyou so much dear
Archana…Yes it is..
Madhavi..Yes dear
Krithi…I am happy that I made your favorite dish..Hope you liked it..
Dzoli….I am really pleased by your comment dear…I am happy that u loved my recipes and trying it…Thank you so much for your comment…Keep checking and keep commenting..Love you too….
Emily…I think you should give this a try..Go ahead and I think you will love it...
Valarmathi Sanjeev
Liked the addition of peanuts....looks yummy and tempting.
Priya
Love the way u prepared this stir fry,super inviting..
Lizzy
What a lovely vegetable dish! I'm tired our our usual corn or peas or beans...time to shake it up 🙂
Prathibha
curry looks yumm n delicious
Jay
wow...such a healthy preparation...awesome..:)
Tasty Appetite
Kaveri
Liked the Aarthi touch of adding peanuts to the thoran...Healthy and yummy
Rosita Vargas
Plato de verduras hermoso,muy bien servido,luce absolutamente bello,abrazos grandes.
Chef Mireille
this looks delicious and I love anything with coconut...a must try for me!!!
morri
Wow, Very nice dish - so colourful and completely non-spicy. I discovered it's a great way to get the kids to eat a lot of veggies with their dinner. I absolutely loved it too, couldn't stop eating it straight from the pan.