kalakkalsamayal: Palak-Koottu

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Palak-Koottu

#PalakKoottu #PalakLentil : #Koottu is a thick gravy prepared from #greens or #vegetables adding lentil and coconut paste. #Koottu is served as a side dish for sambar or rasam rice for lunch. Some greens such as mulai keerai, siru keerai, venthaya keerai, manathakkali keerai, palak, etc., are suitable to prepare #Keeraikoottu. As #Greens are full of fiber, minerals and vitamins, we have to include them in our daily diet.
Here comes a recipe of koottu with #palakgreens

Ingredients :
1 cup	Palak greens chopped
1/3 cup	Green gram
3/4 Tsp	Sambar Powder [ adjust ]
1 pinch	Turmeric powder
1/2 Tsp	Salt [ adjust ]
To grind :
4 Tsp	Coconut scraping [ adjust ]
2 or 3	Black pepper [ optional ]
1/4 Tsp	Cumin
1/4 Tsp	Rice flour
To Temper :
1/2 Tsp	Vengaya vadavam
1/2 Tsp	Oil

Method :

Take split green gram in a small vessel.

Wash and then add a pinch of turmeric powder.

Add 1/2 cup of water.

Add a cup of water in a pressure cooker and keep the above vessel inside the cooker.

Pressure cook on HIGH flame for 1 whistle and then reduce the flame to SIM & cook for 7 minutes.

Open the pressure cooker only after it ran out of steam.

Set aside.

Grind coconut, pepper, cumin and rice paste into a nice paste using a blender.

Keep aside.

Take a pressure cooker and add 1/4 cup of water.

Then add salt, Sambar Powder and turmeric powder.

Spread chopped palak leaves.

Over the leaves add cooked lentil and coconut paste.

Close the cooker with weight on.

Cook on HIGH flame for two whistles.

Immediately release pressure and mix well.

If it is thick add some hot water and mix well.

Transfer into a serving bowl.

Temper Vengaya vadavam and put over the koottu.

Tasty tasty palak koottu is ready to enjoy.

#PalakKoottu is a great accompaniment to sambar rice or rasam rice.
Palak koottu can also be mixed with hot white rice and relished along with any poriyal or kara curry or pickle