Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, vegetable kootu. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Vegetable Kootu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Vegetable Kootu is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
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. Poricha Kootu is a vegetable stew made using steamed vegetables which are cooked in moong dal and coconut based gravy.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. 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)
- Get 100 grams cauliflower florets
- Prepare 50 grams green peas
- Get 1 Potato (Optional)
- Prepare 1/2 cup Moong dal
- Make ready turmeric
- Make ready 4 cups water
- Get 1/4 cup coconut grated
- Prepare 4 - 5 chillies dry red
- Get 1 tbsp cumin seed
- Get salt
- Take 2 tbsps raw rice
- Take 1 tsp mustard seed
- Make ready 1 tbsp Ghee butter / clarified
- Make ready 1 tsp mustard seed
- Prepare curry leaves
Kootu is an integral part of a meal in most south Indian households. This kootu is not avial and tastes different from that. This is a nice accompaniment for rice. This is one of my mom's staple recipe that we love.
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.
I try hard to recreate it, but she has a. Cut the vegetables into medium bite size pieces. Put the vegetables in a heavy bottomed vessel. Add salt, turmeric powder, sambar powder and enough water to cover the vegetable. Cook on medium flame till soft.
So that is going to wrap it up with this exceptional food vegetable kootu recipe. Thank you very much for your time. I am confident that you will make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to bookmark this page in your browser, and share it to your family, friends and colleague. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!
