Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chow-chow kootu / chayote lentil stew. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew is something which I have loved my whole life.
Easy and quick recipe for Chow Chow Kootu with Moong Dal. Chow-Chow (Merakai) cooked with lentils and simmered with coconut and cumin seeds. This is an everyday lentil - Chow Chow Kootu recipe.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chow-chow kootu / chayote lentil stew using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew:
- Prepare 2 Chayote
- Take 1 cup moong dal
- Get 300 ml water
- Take 1 tbsp ghee
- Prepare 1 tsp mustard seeds
- Get 5 curry leaves
- Get to taste salt
- Prepare 1 handful coconut scrapings
- Make ready 1 tbsp cumin jeera /
- Take 7 chillies dry red
It's back to basics today with a simple curry that is quite common in South India….'Chayote Kootu' more popularly known as Chow Chow Kootu. I have made this simple curry even simpler by preparing it in the Instant Pot. With all the craziness going on in the world and in our lives, I am hoping to add some simplicity to our daily chores. Although it is needless to say with the Instant Pot.
Steps to make Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew:
- Cook 1 cup of moong dal(add water until the moong dal submerges or about 200 ml) in pressure cooker up to 4 whistles or cook it in microwave for 15 minutes in high power.
- Peel and chop the chow-chow or chayote into small cubes and put it ina vessel. Add enough water and cook this on medium heat. Sprinkle little salt for the chow-chow to cook faster.
- Take the ingredients mentioned under "For the paste" in a blender jar, add little water(about 6 tbsps) and grind this to smooth paste. It should look like a chutney.
- Now check if the chow-chow- or chayote is cooked by inserting a knife, if it goes in easily then it is cooked. Now add the cooked moong dal and the ground paste to this and mix. Let it boil for about 6 minutes. Keep stirring do not leave this boiling continuously on medium heat. At this stage it will easily stick to the bottom of the vessel and burn, Keep stirring in equal intervals.
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- Take the kootu off the heat and take a tadka pan, on medium heat, crackle 1 tsp of mustard seeds and curry leaves in a tablespoon of ghee. Add this to the kootu and mix.
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This Chow Chow kootu was one of the recipes suggested. So I decided to start off with it. It is a mild dish, where the chow chow or Chayote is cooked with lentils and then simmered in a coconut paste. Kootu is a vegetable and lentil stew with the added goodness of coconut. Enjoy this with rice and a dollop of ghee.
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