Kerala Easy Koottu Curry
A traditional, healthy, full of nutritious veggies loaded curry. Koottu Curry is a side-dish usually served as part of the traditional feast of Kerala, Sadya. It is a curry based dish with a few veggies and legumes.It is a mixture of black chickpeas or chana dal and combination of vegetables like ash gourd /winter melon, raw plantain/kaya, elephant yam /chena with ground coconut and spices.This is prepared in different styles in different parts of Kerala and it’s semi dry preparation.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Bengal gram Kadalaparippu
- 1/4 kg Vegetables
- Pumpkin(Mathanga)
- Snake gourd(Padavalanga)
- Long runner beans(Achinga/Payar)
- Elephant yam(Chena)
- Cucumber(Vellarikka)
- 1/2 cup Inner flesh of drum stick Muringakka
- 3/4 cup Grated coconut
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
- 3 nos Green chillies split into 2
- Salt As reqd
- 1 dsp Ghee
For seasoning:
- 1/4 cup Coconut oil
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- 2 dsp White gram dal
- 3 nos Dried red chillies broken into 3, Kollamulaku
- 2 sprigs Curry leaves
Instructions
- Cook Bengal gram dal with salt and water to a thick gravy.
- Clean and cut the vegetables into small pieces.
- Par boil the vegetables by steaming.
- Grind 1/2 cup of grated coconut and mix it with turmeric powder and green chillies.
- Heat oil in a pan or a kadai.
- Splutter mustard seeds followed by white gram dal, dried red chillies and curry leaves.
- Add the ground coconut mixture and saute for sometime, till the water dries up.
- Add the cooked vegetables, salt and bengal gram dal. Saute well. 9)Heat 1 dsp of ghee in another pan.
- Fry 1/4 cup of grated coconut, till it becomes golden brown.
- Add this to the above vegetable curry and mix well.
- :- In this curry, a miscellaneous variety of vegetables and Bengal gram are used. The difference between this and `Aviyal` is that no tamarind is added.
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