More Kootu

Vegetables that can be prepared this way:

1. Chow Chow (Bangalore Kathirikkai)
2. Vazha Thandu (Banana Stem)
3. Pooshanikkai (White Pumpkin)

Ingredients:

1. Vegetable : 700 gms
2. Sour Curd: 150 ml
3. Green Chilly: 6
4. Ginger: very tiny piece
5. Curry leaves & coriander leaves: few
6. Jeera: 2 tsp
7. Corainder Seeds: 2 tsp
8. Toor dal: 2 tbsps
9. Salt
10. Coconut Oil : 2 tsps
11. Mustard
12. Coconut: can be 1/4^th of the whole coconut quantity
13. Water

Preparation Procedure:

1. In a Kadai, boil the vegetables with Water and Salt.
2. In the meanwhile, separately soak the toor dal, coriander seeds, jeera in water and after 10 to 15 mins, grind the soaked ingredients with coconut, green chillies, ginger and very few curry leaves in the form of a paste.
3. When the vegetables in the kadai are 3/4^th cooked, add the above grinded paste to the kadai and add few more curry leaves now.
4. Leave it for 5 to 10 mins and add the sour curd also to the Kadai now.
5. Boil coconut oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds, allow to splutter and add this seasoned mustard to the More Kootu now.
6. Add very very little quantity of coriander leaves.

Note:  Do not add Asafoedita to More Kootu since it may give a light bitter taste.