Kootu is a lentil ( usually yellow moong dal) and vegetable stew. There are many different ingredients that can be ground to paste and various vegetables that can be added to make Kootu.
Ingredients :
- 1/2 a cabbage about 250g cut into small squares
- 1// cup boiled moong dal
- 1/4 cup fresh coconut
- 1 heap tsp jeera/ cumin
- 6/7 dry red chilly ( mine is a variety that gives more colour than heat so go as per your level of spice)
- Pinch of hing
- Salt
- Few sprigs of curry leaves
- Tsp of oil
- Tsp of chana dal
How to make:
- Cut the cabbage and boil in a pan with Little water and salt.
- Boil moong dal in the cooker and add this to the boiled cabbage.
- Let the two boil together
- Grind together coconut, jeera and red chilly with little water into a fine paste.
- Add this paste to the cabbage and moong dal and boil well with salt and curry leaves.
- Give it a good boil till all the rawness goes away.
- It should be in sambhar consistency
- Give tadka of Chanadal in a tsp of oil.
- Serve this can be kootu with rice.