Vegetable Kootu
Vegetable Kootu

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, vegetable kootu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Healthy, nutritious, and delicious side dish for rice rotti, chapati and for idli as well is Kootu. This can be prepared in many different ways, this is one. If you are from a south Indian household, you would know that no thali is complete without a kootu.

Vegetable Kootu is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Vegetable Kootu is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have vegetable kootu using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Vegetable Kootu:
  1. Take 1 Chayote (Chow-chow)
  2. Prepare 100 grams cauliflower florets
  3. Get 50 grams green peas
  4. Make ready 1 Potato (Optional)
  5. Make ready 1/2 cup Moong dal
  6. Make ready turmeric
  7. Get 4 cups water
  8. Make ready 1/4 cup coconut grated
  9. Make ready 4 - 5 chillies dry red
  10. Prepare 1 tbsp cumin seed
  11. Make ready salt
  12. Make ready 2 tbsps raw rice
  13. Take 1 tsp mustard seed
  14. Make ready 1 tbsp Ghee butter / clarified
  15. Make ready 1 tsp mustard seed
  16. Take curry leaves

This is one of my mom's staple recipe that we love. Mixed Vegetable Kootu - Vegetable Dal Recipe - Vegetable Lentil Curry. It is prepared during auspicious ceremonies like Upanayana / Sacred thread. As the name says- it has mixed vegetables like beans, pumpkin.

Steps to make Vegetable Kootu:
  1. Soak 2 tbsps of raw rice in 5 tbsps of water and keep it aside.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Take a small kadaai / pan, keep it on low heat, add the ingredients given under "Tempering" and add it to the Kootu.
  6. Generally Kootu is served with plain white rice, but this can also be eaten as a side dish for chappathi / phulka.

Cuisine: India, South Indian The delicious and yummy Mixed Vegetable Poricha Kootu is ready to serve. This style kootu is prepared in and around Bengaluru and Mysuru region. Kootu ; delicious alternate to sambar is packed with protein, vitamins and minerals and is easy to make. Mixed Vegetable Kootu is an easy to prepare Indian food recipe that is made with potato, carrot, brinjals and a spicy masala paste of cinnamon, poppy seeds, bengal gram and coconut. Mixed vegetable kootu is very similar to Avial and pongal kootu.

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