Carrot Kootu Recipe – Ingredients

Preparation Time : 5 mins | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Serves : 2
Recipe Category: Sidedish | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Carrot – a and 1/2 cups finely chopped
Moong Dal – 1 and 1/2 tbsp
Toor Dhal – 2 tbsp
Big Onion – 1 small sized chopped finely
Turmeric powder – a generous pinch
Salt – to taste

To grind together:

Grated coconut – 2 tbsp
Jeera – 1 tsp

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To Temper:

Oil -1 tsp
Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
Urad Dhal – 1/2 tsp
Hing(Perungayam) – a generous pinch
Curry leaves – few
Green chillies – 1 chopped roughly

Method:

1. Dry roast moong dal till golden brown.Pressure cook both the dals with 1 cup of water,salt and turmeric powder, Cook until mushy and soft. Mash it well with a laddle and set aside.
   
2. Grind together coconut and jeera with little water to a fine paste.Chop carrots finely and set aside.
   
3. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, urad dhal, green chillies and curry leaves.Let it splutter, then add onion and hing saute till onion turns transparent.Then add required salt and chopped carrot.
   
4. Saute for few mins until raw smell leaves.Then add cooked dal water alone and required water.
   
5. Cook till carrot turns soft.By then the water would have been absorbed too now add dal and let it boil for 2mins.
   
6. Then add the coconut paste and allow it to boil till it becomes thick.Switch off and serve with hot rice.
   

Serve hot with rice!

My Notes:

• Add the coconut paste only after the veggie is cooked.
• The curry will thicken with time so switch it off accordingly.
• You can also replace toor dhal with chana dal too.But adding a combination of dal gives nice flavour to the kootu.