Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, vegetable kootu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. Mixed Vegetable Kootu is a simple, healthy, and delicious homestyle dish of lentils, seasonal vegetables, and freshly pressed coconut milk, tempered with spices and aromatics. Our mixed vegetable kootu recipe Chettinad style is a staple for lunch at home and is made in kitchens across south India on a daily basis.
Vegetable Kootu is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Vegetable Kootu is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin 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:
- Make ready 1 Chayote (Chow-chow)
- Take 100 grams cauliflower florets
- Get 50 grams green peas
- Make ready 1 Potato (Optional)
- Get 1/2 cup Moong dal
- Prepare turmeric
- Take 4 cups water
- Take 1/4 cup coconut grated
- Make ready 4 - 5 chillies dry red
- Take 1 tbsp cumin seed
- Prepare salt
- Prepare 2 tbsps raw rice
- Prepare 1 tsp mustard seed
- Take 1 tbsp Ghee butter / clarified
- Prepare 1 tsp mustard seed
- Get curry leaves
With the fresh grind masale, the tastes wonderful. To make mixed veg kootu you can add vegetables like carrot, beans,potato, brinjal, beans, cluster beans, broad beans, pumpkin, ash gourd, yam, peanut, black eyed peas,green peas etc. Usually no souring ingredient like tomato / tamarind is added to it. And also its a no onion garlic dish.
Instructions 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.
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. This kootu is packed with protein, vitamins and minerals and is so easy to make.
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