Ezhukai Kootu

EZHU KAI KOOTU:

INGREDIENTS:

• Vegetables          -       2 cups or

                Broad Beans, Carrot, Pumpkin, Sweet potatoes, Beans or Cluster beans, Yam, Banana, Red pumpkin, Colocaesia, Tomato, Red Kidney beans and Potatoes - Each 50 gms (Boil Sweet potatoes, yam, colocaesia and potatoes seperately  and keep it ready before starting the kootu preparation)

• Green Chillies     - 2 or 3 ( or as per required)
• Tamarind water   - Little
• Turmeric powder - Little
• Sambar powder    - Little

To Make a Paste:

•    Bengal gram      - 2 tsps
•    Coriander seeds - 3 tsps
•    Red chillies        - 3 or 4
•    Pepper                - 1 tsp
•    Urad Dhal          - 2 tsps

    Fry all the above ingredients in a little oil and grind with a cup of unfried scrapped coconut. Keep this paste ready before starting the kootu preparation.

PROCEDURE:

1. Keep a kadai on the stove.
2. Switch on the stove and add tamarind juice extracted from a lemon sized tamarind.
3. Add turmeric powder, sambhar powder and boil it for 5 minutes.
4. Add the sliced tomatoes to the tamarind juice.
5. Boil it for another 5 minutes.
6. Next, add all the unboiled vegetables (including green chillies) and cook it for another 5 minutes.
7. Now, add the boiled vegetables and cook it till all the vegetables becomes soft.
8. Then, add the grinded paste to the cooked vegetables.
9. Cook it for 5 minutes and remove the contents from stove.
10. Transfer it to serving bowl and serve it with the "Thiruvadirai Kali"

Have a Happy and Stomach filled Thiruvadirai..........

Bye for now guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!