It is also called satrangi handia or sub subzian.
Do you have this tradition of mixing and cooking many many vegetables and meat to make this dish ? This goes good with naan , chapati or plain rice.
There is no special recipe , you cook it as you cook palak gosht , just add a blend of diced and sliced vegetables.
There is another dish which is made by mixing all kinds of daals/lentils , heavenly food.
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never heard of this dish before Mirch … do you mean mixing a variety of sabzi’s along with meat? 
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If its just veg, then yes. However we call it Nau Ratan, after Akbar Badshah's Nau Ratan, and yes we have a mix of 9 veg.
Its considered a special dish and is served at dawaats. Though we do make a simplified version for everyday cooking, and put in as many or as few veg as we like (more than 3 though).
My husband's family (they're from Tanzania) call it Boga Boga (a swahili term so I beleive). Quite a contrast in terminology. I prefer Nau Ratan
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wow , I am genuinely surprised at myself at the fact that i never realized this dish was around ... Please tell me a bit more about it ... when you say 9 vegetables .. what all do you mix in? and how do you go about cooking it?
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Yep it is called nau rattan too. :k:
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wow , I am genuinely surprised at myself at the fact that i never realized this dish was around ... Please tell me a bit more about it ... when you say 9 vegetables .. what all do you mix in? and how do you go about cooking it?
Sadday naal raho gay tay aish karo gay. :)
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We call it bowray handia. The dish that is nauratan korma is made like a korma, but with vegetables, whereas the bowray handia is less "sophisticated" and a more casual dish.
Our bowray handia has peas, carrots, potatoes, eggplant, and beans.
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we too call it Nauratan and it is made like sehrysh described above…but I have never heard of bowray handiya.
my inlaws have something similar but it is referred to as “dewani handi” 
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bowli=bowry=dewani
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Please please please can some one write up a detailed recipe .. I am already getting super excited at the thought of learning this new dish 
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I knew someone will ask for recipe so I have answered this question already in my first psot : There is no special recipe , you cook it as you cook palak gosht , just add a blend of diced and sliced vegetables
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Traditionally cooked on "choti (4th) ki rasam"
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Traditionally cooked on "choti (4th) ki rasam"
wow...I had no idea that this tradition existed.....
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Thats on the 4th day of wedding!
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never heard of the 1st one..but the second one…mixing of daals..isnt tht khichra?
either ways its yumyyy 
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is it ur VERY OWN cocktail of ideas, Mirch Bhai? never heard of such a dish!
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May be it is not a tradition in India but as Moster said above it is made on certain special occasions and in my home it was made mostly during winter months.
As I said and other posters too it has different names bowli=bowri=nauratan etc in different regional cultures of Indo Pak.
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Mirch is this dish from a particular region/group of people in pakistan?
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My mom often use to cook it with meat.
On the 4th day of wedding, there is a rasm in which the bride and the groom throw vegetables (very gently) on each other and then it is cooked in the evening. This is called choti and the dish is called satrangi sabzi. The rasam is hardly seen these days. But in my childhood it was a must!