Tirunelveli Famous Kootanchoru

KOOTANCHORU is the famous tirunelveli dish. I love this dish very much. I made this recipe with the help of my anty and i done this recipe. My family member really enjoyed it. This kootanchoru is highly balanced nutritious and healthy dish. Now a days our younger generation are not taking balanced vegetable diets and we also forgetting the goodness of older dish, to remember that kind of dishes i prepare this recipe. If you try this at your home and i hope your kids also like the kootanchoru.............

ENJOY THIS TRADITIONAL RECIPE.

Preparation time : 15 mins

Cooking time : 30 mins

Serve - 5 to 6

Item : Traditional

INGREDIENTS :

Rice - 11/2 cup

Half boiled toor dal - 1 cup

Water - 7 cup

Turmeric powder - 1 spn

Tamarind - a lemon size

Asafoetida - 2 tspn

Coriander leaver - few (chopped)

Salt as needed

FOR TEMPER :

Coconut oil - 5 spn

Mustard - 1 spn

Urad dal - 1 spn

Shallots / small onions - 7 (chopped)

Curry leaves - few

VEGETABLES :

Carrot - 2 (sliced)

Beans - 10 (sliced)

Potato - 1 (sliced)

Drumstick - 1 (sliced)

Raw banana / valakkai - 2 (sliced)

Board beans / avarakkai - 7 (sliced)

Chinese potato / siru kizhangu - 5 (sliced)

Raw mango - 1/2 (sliced)

Tomato - 2 (sliced)

Green chilli - 5 (sliced)

Brinjal - 8 (sliced)

FOR MASALA :

Red chilli - 10

Garlic - 3

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Shallots / small onions - 15

METHOD :

• Grind the ingredients listed into a coarse form.
• Wash the toor dal and boil it is half cooked.
• Soak tamarind in 1/2 cup of water and extract pulp.
• Cut all the vegetables in to thin slices and wash well.
• In a big vessel add water, rice and bring to boil for 10 mins.
• Now add all the vegetables to the rice mixture.
• Add in salt and turmeric and close the lid and boil it till done.
• Now open and add asafoetida to the rice, 
• Now add tamarind water and masala together in a bowl and mix it well.
• Pour the mix to the rice and add boiled dal to the rice mixture.
• Allow to boil in a low flame.
• In other stove temper the items which mensioned in the " for temper".
• Then pour it to the rice and add in grated coconut and mix well.
• Now add chopped coriander to the rice.
• Add pour some raw coconut oil and mix it well and suddenly off the stove.
• Now the highly nutritious kootanchooru is ready to serve with appalam.

PICTORIAL :

Take masala items

Grind into a paste

Main ingredients

All the vegetables

In a pan add water

Add in rice

Bring to boil

Add all the vegetables

This too

Close it with a lid

Allow to cook for 10 mins

Add salt and turmeric 

Add in asafoetida

Leave it for 10 mins

Extract tamarind pulp

Add masala to that

Pour it to the rice

Add in toor dal

Mix well with the ladle

Add oil in a kadai

Mustard

Urad dal

Chopped shallots

Curry leaves

Toss it well

Untill it became brown

Add in coconut

And mix well

Pour temper items

Add in chopped coriander

Add in a spoon of raw coconut oil

Mix evenly

Serve

Have it with appalam

See how it is.........yummy....

Enjoy..