Pudalangai Kootu is one of the recipes that I wanted to post for a long time….Somehow it gets missed everytime I make it. Either I forget to click the stepwise or the weather is bad and finally few weeks back I managed to cook and click it as well.
Pudalangai Kootu Recipe
Pudalangai – 2 cups chopped
Toor Dal – 1/4 cup
Turmeric powder – a generous pinch
Salt – to taste
Toor Dal – 1/4 cup
Turmeric powder – a generous pinch
Salt – to taste
To grind to a paste:
Coconut – 3 tbsp
Jeera – 1 tsp
Green Chilli – 1
To temper:
Oil – 2 tsp
Mustard – 1 tsp
Urad dal – 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves – a sprig
Hing – a generous pinch
Method:
- First clean the veggie and chop into pieces. Check the ingredients list and click on pudalangai link to see how to cut and clean pudalangai post.Then pressure cook dal along with salt,with enough water and turmeric powder until mushy. Mash it up with a laddle, set aside.Cook the veggie with enough water until soft then add little turmeric powder mix well.
- Add cooked dal and let it boil for few mins. Grind the ingredients listed under ‘to grind to a fine paste.
- When dal is nicely blended with the veggie with no raw smell, then add the coconut paste give a quick stir.Add required salt.Let it boil for 3-5mins until raw smell of coconut paste leaves. Add little water it starts thickening.
- Heat oil in a pan add the items listed under ‘to temper’ and add this tempering to the kootu , give a wuick mix and switch off.
My Notes:
- You can even pressure cook snakegourd but be careful not to mush the veggie.
- Seasoning at the last stage gives a great flavour to the kootu.
You can serve this as accompaniment for rice.
BAGIRATHI DEVI says
July 26, 2013 at 6:58 amColor is good healthy veg(kootu)
Sona S says
July 26, 2013 at 8:15 amHealthy and delicious kootu.
Deepthy Shriram says
December 30, 2013 at 6:25 pmI just love your recipes…Keep going..All the best 🙂
Deepthy Shriram says
December 30, 2013 at 6:26 pmI just love your recipes..Keep going n all the very best 🙂
vishva rajasekar says
January 22, 2014 at 6:02 amya its superb kootu., my friend ram like very much…
Deepa Kaliraj says
January 29, 2014 at 12:03 pmVery nice could u plz post recipe for peerkangai(ridge gourd)since I like this vegetable so much plz
Viji kannan says
December 11, 2015 at 6:58 amHi sharmis.. Can I replace toor dal instead of Chana dal?
SHARMILEE J says
December 13, 2015 at 2:27 pmYes you can but usually we add toor dal for this kootu
Amsa Vivetha says
August 18, 2016 at 5:04 amAkka can I replace bottle gourd instead of snake gourd..?? Or should i go with different recipes,.. If so post me link for bottle gourd I could not find one..
SHARMILEE J says
October 23, 2016 at 9:51 amYes you can use the same recipe itself
kalarani karthick says
August 21, 2016 at 11:04 amTried it…came out yummy…:-)