Podalanga Kootu ( snake gourd)

Ingredients

100 gms Toor dal (pressure cooked and mashed well)

¼ cup coconut

¼ spoon Jeera

1 or 2 red chillie

¼ spoon Urad dha

¼ spoon rice flour

Turmeric powder a pinch

1 spoon oil

Salt to taste

Method

In a pan add podalanga with little water and cook for 3 minutes.

Add turmeric powder and salt and cook till the vegetables are soft.

Grind coconut, red chilli, jeera and rice flour to a fine paste.

Add this masala to boiled podalanga and cook for 2 minutes.

Now add the mashed dhal along with this and allow to boil for 5 more minutes.

Heat oil and splutter mustard add urad dal when it turns brown add curry leaves.

Podalanga kootu is ready. Serve hot with rice along with Raitha/ salad / tuvayal/ any chutney.

Like this you can prepare various types of kootu, by using same ingredients and cooking method.

Change the vegetables. (Variations)

Mixed vegetables like carrot, peas, cauliflower, chow chow ( Bangalore kathirika)

Vazhai thandu (banana stem)

White pumkin

Yellow pumki

Cabbage

Greens