Poricha Koottu

Ingredients:

• You can use French Beans, Snack Gourd, Chow chow, Ash Gourd, Carrot, Bottle Gourd, Drum stick, Brinjal i.e. Egg plant, Ridge gourd,Cabbbage, paruppu keerai, Green papaya and Drum stick-flowers.
• Any one veg. from the above list.
• 1 cup cooked dal ( moong or thur dal)
• 2 - 3 sp Koottu podi
• 2 - 3 sp coconut
• salt
• oil to make seasoning( coconut oil is best)
• 1 sp mustard seeds
• 1 sp udad dal

Method:

• Take any one of the vegetable and cut in to small pieces and add any one of the dal and keep it in a pressure cooker and cook it.
• Put the pan on the stove and pour one spoon oil and make seasoning with mustard seeds and udath dal.
• Add cooked dal and vegetable in the pan and mix well.
• Add the Kuttu powder in that.Mix well.
• Add fresh coconut and mix well.
• Add salt and let the kuttu cook for some minutes and stir it continuously to avoid sticking.
• Remove it from the fire and add coriander leaves or curry leaves.
• Serve with hot rice.

Notes:

• To make pooracha Kootu we need any one of the above vegetable and cooked moong dal or thur dal.
• I have given here to use moong or thur dal.
• But I personally use moong for poracha kuttu and thur for puli kuttu.
• You can do as per your wish and if you want you can mix both dal and use them.