Sunday, August 29, 2010

Cluster Beans Kootu


Ingredients:
2 cup chopped beans
1/2 cup kandi pappu
1 tbsp tamarind paste
pinch of pasupu
salt to taste
2 tbsp kootu powder
few curry levaes
1/2 spoon sugar
2 green chillies split
1 tomato chopped

Popu:
1 sp avalu
1/2 sp Jeera
1/2 mentulu
1 red chilli
pinch of hingu
1 tsp oil

Method:
1. Boil the vegetable and dal.
2. Take a pan Fry th popu ingredients in the oil and add green chillies and curry elaves to the above popou and fry for 1 min.
3. Add chopped tomato and fry till becomes soft.
4. Add the tamarind paste with 2 cups water add salt ans pasupu and boil for 2 minutes.
5. Add boiled vegetable and smashed dal to the above mixture and mix well till the dal mixes well with the water.
6. After the mixture boils for 2 mins add Kootu powder { mixed with water to make a paste}and mix well after the mix boils for 2 mins add coconut scrape and sugar.
7. Garnish the kootu with coriander leaves and coconut scrape and 1 spoon ghee.