Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, healthy pumpkin curry (kootu curry). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Kootu curry recipe with step by step photos - kootu curry also known as koottukari or kootu kari is a thick curry based dish made with a few veggies and legumes. The veggies that are added are yam, ash gourd, carrots, snake gourd, pumpkin or plantains. The legumes added are black chickpeas (kala chana) or bengal gram (chana dal).
Healthy Pumpkin curry (kootu curry) is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Healthy Pumpkin curry (kootu curry) is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have healthy pumpkin curry (kootu curry) using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Healthy Pumpkin curry (kootu curry):
- Prepare 1/4 cup Soaked Chick peas/ channa (brown is healthy)
- Take 3 tbsp Soaked Black eyed peas or any beans u like
- Take 1/4 kg Yellow Pumpkin
- Prepare salt
- Get 1 pinch turmeric powder
- Make ready 3 tbsp grated coconut
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Make ready 2 clove garlic cloves
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Red chilly powder
- Get 1 tsp Coconut oil
- Get 1/4 tsp mustard seeds
- Take 6 curry leaves
- Make ready 1 small dry red chilly
- Make ready 1 pinch urid dhal
Poosanikai kootu, a delicious thick stew made with white pumpkin, coconut-spice paste, cooked moong dal along with simple coconut oil based tempering. This Kootu is served as an accompaniment for any South Indian Main Courses like Sambar, Rasam or any Kuzhambu variety. Kootu Curry is a traditional side dish served mostly for festivals & celebrations in Kerala, like Onam, Vishu, and marriages. Along with the endless curries served in a Sadya (traditional vegetarian feast of Kerala), Kootu Curry makes its presence unique by being the only curry which uses roasted coconut as a topping.
Instructions to make Healthy Pumpkin curry (kootu curry):
- Cut Pumpkins into small cubes. Set aside the soaked channa and black eyed beans. ( can be soaked for 3hours)
- Pressure cook the soaked Black channa and black eyed peas till it is done.
- Once they are done, add the cut Pumpkins, salt and turmeric powder with them and just cook it for one whistle.
- Grind coarsely the grated coconut, cumin seeds, red chilly powder and garlic cloves. Just grind roughly
- Open the pressure cooker, check the pumpkin, it should be soft. No matter if it loses its shape.
- Switch on the flame, heat a pan add oil to that and temper mustard seeds, red chilly, urid dhal, curry leaves.
- Add the boiled things and ground coconut mixture, mix and cover the pan for 2 minutes.
- After two minutes open the pan, mix well, check for salt and allow it to boil for few seconds and remove from fire.
- Serve this with rice, chappati or other Indian bread varieties. Can adjust spiciness according to your taste. Can add other grams or beans also
Pumpkin Koottu Curry : Kootu is a popular way of preparing veggies in Tamil Nadu. In fact, on special occasions, a dry subzi and a kootu must be served compulsorily as part of the meal. Kootu is a semi-solid curry of veggies and pulses or beans, enriched with a paste of coconut and spices, and tempered traditionally. Pumpkin Kootu Curry prepared with red pumpkin and kala vatana is an all-time. Kootu Curry Recipe / Kootu Curry Kerala Style is specially prepared on the day of Vishu or with Onam Sadya feast.
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