Chow Chow Kootu Recipe - Ingredients
Preparation Time : 5 mins | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Serves : 2
Recipe Category: Sidedish | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Recipe Category: Sidedish | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Chow chow(Chayote) - 1 skin scrapped & cut into small cubes
Toor Dhal - a fistful
Big Onion - 1 small sized chopped finely
Turmeric powder - a generous pinch
Salt - to taste
To grind together:
Grated coconut - 2 tbspJeera / cumin seeds - 1 tsp
To Temper:
Oil -1 tspMustard seeds - 1 tsp
Urad Dhal - 1/2 tsp
Hing(Perungayam) - a generous pinch
Curry leaves - few
Green chillies - 1 slitted
Method:
- Scrap the outerskin of the veggie and chop them finely.Grind coconut and jeera to a coarse paste and set aside.Pressure cook toor dal with water until mushy and soft. Mash it well with a laddle and set aside.
- Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, urad dhal, green chillies and curry leaves.Then add onion and hing saute till onion shrinks. Add chow chow along with turmeric powder, saute for 2mins.
- Then add cooked dhal and required water cook covered until the veggie becomes soft,add required salt.Allow it to boil and Keep stirring in between.
- Then add the coconut paste and allow it to boil till it becomes thick.Switch off and serve with hot rice.
My Notes:
- Add the coconut paste only after the veggie is cooked.
- The curry will thicken with time so switch it off accordingly.
- You can also replace toor dhal with chana dal.
