Kootu Curry
Kootu Curry is a popular & traditional side dish made by cooking yam, plantain with chana & coconut. Kootu Curry is one of the main ingredient in onam sadhya and serves as a great side dish with rice, dal /sambar or even with plain steamed rice. Kottu curry recipe with step by step pictures and video.
Servings3
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup elephant yam
- 1/2 cup green plantain
- 1/2 cup black chana
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
- water as needed
- salt to taste
To grind:
- 1/2 cup coconut
- 2 nos garlic
- 1 no green chilli
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon jeera
To temper:
- 2 teaspoon coconut oil
- 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
- 1 red chilli
- few curry leaves
To roast:
- 1/4 cup coconut
Instructions
- Remove the skin of raw banana, yam and chop them into bite sized pieces.
- Cook it with enough water along with 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder and little salt (You can even pressure cook for 2 whistles). The veggies should be cooked soft.
- Soak channa overnight and pressure cook for 5 whistles or until soft.
- Grind the ingredients listed under 'to grind' to a semi fine paste. Set aside.
- Now in a pan add cooked veggies along with black chana, add the coconut paste, check for salt and adjust accordingly and sprinkle little water. Do not add more water.
- Saute till raw smell of coconut leaves.
- While it gets sauted prepare the tadka - heat coconut oil in a tadka pan add the ingredients listed under 'to temper' let it splutter.
- Dry roast coconut till dark reddish golden brown.
- Once the coconut raw smell leaves from the curry and the curry becomes like a thick curry add roasted coconut and tadka tempering to the curry, mix well and switch off.
- Garnish with roasted coconut. Serve hot with rice, sambar and papadam.
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Notes
- The consistency should be thick so don't add more water.
- You can also use other vegetables like ashgourd, yellow pumpkin etc.
- I have heard that some recipes even use bengal gram (kadala paruppu). Its like each part of Kerala uses a different recipe.
Nutrition Facts
Kootu Curry
Amount Per Serving (100 g)
Calories 243
Calories from Fat 99
% Daily Value*
Fat 11g17%
Saturated Fat 8g50%
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.2g
Monounsaturated Fat 1g
Sodium 9mg0%
Potassium 291mg8%
Carbohydrates 34g11%
Fiber 11g46%
Sugar 7g8%
Protein 6g12%
Vitamin A 431IU9%
Vitamin C 31mg38%
Calcium 68mg7%
Iron 2mg11%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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