Ingredients
pressure cook
- 1/4 cup moong dal
- 3/4 cup hot water
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1/4 teaspoon sesame oil
to grind
- 3 tablespoon coconut tightly packed
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1 teaspoon sambar powder
kootu
- water as required
- required salt
- 1 +1/2 cup drumstick leaves trim wash, and rough chop
- Tamarind small chickpea size
To temper
- 1/2 tablespoon coconut oil
- Curry leaves few
- 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
- 1/2 tablespoon urad dal
- 2 red chilli
- asafoetida
Instructions
pressure cook dal
- first, Wash and soak moong dal and Chana Dal with enough water for 30 minutes
- Add water, turmeric powder and sesame oil
- Pressure cook for 5 whistles. Simmer for a minute and turn off the stove
- do a natural pressure release
- mix well and mash
Grind coconut
- Add coconut, cumin seeds, pepper, sambar powder and water; grind
Boil kootu
- Add water and boil
- Furthermore, add drumstick leaves; mix well and cook for 4 minutes
- Add the ground mixture and tamarind; boil for 4 minutes
- Furthermore add cooked dal, required salt, and water; mix well and cook for 5 minutes
temper and prepare kootu
- Add oil to a wide bottomed pan
- turn on the stove and heat the oil
- furthermore add mustard seeds, urad dal, red chilli, and curry leaves and let them splutter
- Add asafoetida and mix well
- turn off the stove
- transfer to kootu
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