Mixed Vegetable Poricha Kootu

Name: Vegetable Poricha Kootu
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 nos Carrot; 1 nos Potato; 15 nos Beans; 50 grams Cucumber; 1 handful green peas; 3 tbsp Moong dal; ¼ tsp Turmeric Powder; 1 tsp Salt (adjust to your taste); 2 tbsp Grated Coconut; 1 tsp Cooking Oil; 1 nos Red Chili; ½ tsp Cumin Seeds; 1 tsp Peppercorns; 1 tsp Cooking Oil; 1 tsp Mustard seeds; 1 tsp Split Urad Dal; 1 sprig Curry leaves

Posted on Mar 7th, 2013

by Sowmya Venkatachalam

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4 from 5 votes

Poricha Kootu is a comfort south indian food where the steamed vegitables are cooked in coconut and lentil gravy. We don't add tamarind in Poricha Kootu / Poricha Kuzhambu. It's a traditional kootu variety which is served as an accompaniment to Sambar / Rasam rice.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

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Poricha Kootu is a vegetable stew made using steamed vegetables which are cooked in moong dal and coconut based gravy. Rich in flavour of mixed vegetables, coconut and dal mixture, it gives a wonderful taste. For Poricha Kootu, tamarind will not be added. We can add any vegetables of your choice to make Poricha Kootu. It’s a very good side dish for any Thugayal varieties or even with Sambar and Rasam

Recipe Card for making Poricha Kootu

Method with Step by Step pictures:

Clean and finely chop the vegetables and soak them in water to avoid decolorization of some of the vegetables.
Add the moong dal in a vessel with a pinch of turmeric powder and pressure cook the dal over 3 whistles. Once cooked mash the dal and keep it ready

Heat oil in a pan and add the grinding ingredients – grated coconut, red chili, cumin seeds and pepper. Fry all the ingredients till the coconut turns golden brown color. Add the fried ingredients to the mixer and grind it to a nice paste and keep it ready

Heat the pan and add the chopped vegetables and turmeric powder. Add water to cook the vegetables.
When the vegetables are half cooked, add salt and allow it to cook completely. Now add the smashed dal and mix well

Allow the vegetables and dal to boil in medium flame.
Now add the ground paste and mix well. Adjust the salt it needed

Keep the flame in medium and cook the stew for 5 more minutes and switch off the flame

Heat oil in another pan, add mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds starts to sputter, add urid dal and fry it till it turns golden brown color. Finally add chopped curry leaves and mix well. Remove the seasoned ingredients from flame and add it to the cooked poricha kootu/stew