Koottu curry / Mixed Vegetable curry

Are you getting roasted coconut and pepper smell??? 

 

 

Ingredients:

1. Kadala / Black chickpeas - 1/4 cups
2. Unripe plantain, cut into small cubes - 1 cup
3. Carrot, cut into small cubes - 1/2 cup
4. turmeric powder - 1/2tsp
5. Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
6. Black pepper - 10
7. Coconut shredded - 3tbs + 1tbs
8. Dried red chilli - 2-3
9. Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
10. Curry leaves - few
11. Coconut oil - 2 tbs
12. Salt to taste

Note:
You can add other vegetables like chembu/colocasia, Chena/yam  etc in koottu curry

Method:

1. Soak black chickpeas overnight and cook them till soft in pressure cooker ( around 10 min)
2. Cook all vegetables in a pan along with cooked chickpeas and 1-1.5 cups of water from cooker
3. Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and salt to taste
4. In a blender coarsely grind 3 tbs coconut along with pepper corns
5. Once the vegetables are cooked, and most of the water is dried, add the coconut mixture to it
6. Mix well and cook for 2 more minutes and switch off the flame
7. In a tempering pan, heat coconut oil, splutter mustard seeds in it
8. Add red chilli, curry leaves and 1 tbs coconut in the tempering pan and stir till coconut is browned. (not burned :) )
9. Add the  tempering on to the koottu curry and keep it closed for 5 minutes before mixing it

Koottu curry is ready to be served!