Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, vegetable kootu. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Vegetable Kootu is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Vegetable Kootu is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
This South Indian curry is a delicious combination of vegetables, spices, and coconut. A fresh coconut paste along with other spices such as coriander seeds, fenugreek seeds, chana dal, cumin seeds, dry red chillies is made, which adds a delicious taste to the curry. The kitchen smelt remarkably delicious with warm aromatic flavors while cooking today's recipe, mixed vegetable kootu.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook vegetable kootu using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Vegetable Kootu:
- Get 1 Chayote (Chow-chow)
- Make ready 100 grams cauliflower florets
- Prepare 50 grams green peas
- Prepare 1 Potato (Optional)
- Make ready 1/2 cup Moong dal
- Get turmeric
- Make ready 4 cups water
- Get 1/4 cup coconut grated
- Get 4 - 5 chillies dry red
- Prepare 1 tbsp cumin seed
- Make ready salt
- Prepare 2 tbsps raw rice
- Take 1 tsp mustard seed
- Take 1 tbsp Ghee butter / clarified
- Make ready 1 tsp mustard seed
- Prepare curry leaves
Usually no souring ingredient like tomato / tamarind is added to it. And also its a no onion garlic dish. Addition of pepper gives a unique flavor to this dish. You can add vegetables like carrot, potato, brinjal, snake gourd, beans, cluster beans, broad beans, pumpkin, ash gourd, cauliflower and also any legumes like black eyed peas or green peas or channa or peanuts.
Steps to make Vegetable Kootu:
- Soak 2 tbsps of raw rice in 5 tbsps of water and keep it aside.
- Peel and chop the vegetables. Take a vessel that fits into a pressure cooker, add the vegetables, moong dal, water and add a pinch of turmeric. Pressure cook it up to 4 whistles.
- Take a blender jar add all the ingredients given under "For the paste", including the soaked rice. Add the water used to soak the rice. Grind it to a smooth paste.
- Allow the pressure to release on its own. Once the pressure is released, take out the cooked dal and vegetables. Add the ground paste. Keep it on medium high heat and allow it to boil for 3-4 minutes. Stir continuously, do not burn it.
- Take a small kadaai / pan, keep it on low heat, add the ingredients given under "Tempering" and add it to the Kootu.
- Generally Kootu is served with plain white rice, but this can also be eaten as a side dish for chappathi / phulka.
This kootu is packed with protein, vitamins and minerals and is so easy to make. It can be had as a side dish for ven pongal also. Mixed vegetable kootu is very similar to Avial and pongal kootu. Its a South Indian style side dish for rice. Usually my mom makes avial (her signature recipe) for sambar sadam.
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