Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Kootu Curry

 
This is one another veggie dish against which my sweet better half doesn’t turn his face off. Even I love this one. Whenever I have a sadhya, the first item to vanish from my plate (of course banana leaf for sadhya) would be kootu curry. At home, we used to prepare this only for Onam & Vishu. I always used to ask my grandmother to prepare extra kootu curry & payasam for Onasadhya, so that I could have the left overs for the next days as well.  Of course the left overs of the “special dishes” were meant for the younger ones @ home J and that was me n my brother.
 
 
Ingredients:

Black chick peas                   --    ¼ cup
Yam                                      --   250gm
Raw Plantain                         --   ½ of a large one
Turmeric powder                   --   ¼ tsp
Cumin seeds                          --   1 tsp
Pearl onions                          --    2-3
Whole Pepper                      --    15 – 20 pepper corns
Curry Leaves                        --   few
Shredded coconut                 --   ¾ cup
Mustard seeds                      --    ½ tsp
Sesame seeds                       --    1 tsp
Red chillies                           --    2 -3
Oil                                        --   2 tbsp
Salt                                       --   to taste
 
Preparation of Kootu Curry:

Soak the chick peas in water for 8 hours/overnight. Cook it in a pressure cooker and keep aside. Normally it takes 3 – 4 whistles to get this cooked.

In another vessel, cook the cubed yam and raw plantain with turmeric powder and salt.

 

Grind ¼ cup of shredded coconut with cumin seeds, pepper corns and shallots.


Once the veggies are cooked, add the ground mixture and the cooked chick peas. Mix well.

 

Heat oil in another pan and splutter the mustard seeds. Add sesame seeds, red chillies and rest of the coconut and fry until the coconut turns brown.

Add this in to the curry and mix well.

 

Serve hot with rice.


21 comments:

  1. delicious n healthy kootu...looks awesome

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  2. Kootu curry looks really delicious.

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  3. wow kootucurry .rally delicious and yummy one.. nicely presented.

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  4. wow!! this owuld be lovely and yuumy with hot steaming rice :).. i love ur blog and the pics says it all :)..simply awesome :)

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  5. Wowww great looking kootu curry, makes me hungry..

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  6. Wow adipoli..delicious kootu curry...my favorite too

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  7. that looks really nice...nice clicks too.

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  8. Ahha...so this is the kootu curry the american guy was tweeting about...can u imagine, i shud be ashamed to say that i never had this!!....should try it now...looks so good!

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  9. Wow!!! luks delicious and tempting...

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  10. Dear Nitha,
    First time to ur lovely page...
    U hv quiet n interesting collection.
    Tis one is my fav...me too cook de same way.
    Also liked ur murrukku.
    Will be bk for more.
    Cheers,
    Chetana
    www.myrecipegalore.blogspot.com

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  11. That looks yum. Looking delicious too!

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  12. Heard a lot abt this but yet to try it...yours too look very delicious nitha..

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  13. wow, I can have rice just with this curry to go. lovely dish. u have done it so perfectly.. love it.

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  14. first time here...u have a nice space...

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  15. Nice Recipe Nitha ..Thank you so much.. Tt came out very well..In btw, you saved me ! :)

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