India
Poosanikai Pulippu Kootu Recipe
Prep Time | 10 minutes |
Cook Time | 20 minutes |
Servings |
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Ingredients
- ¼ cup Poosanikai Ash gourd
- 1¼ cup tamarind extract
- 1¼ tsp Sambar powder
- ¼ cup toor dal
- 3 tbsp Raw Peanuts
- ½ tsp Turmeric powder
- Salt to taste
- Pinch of Asafetida
- 1 tsp Oil
- ¼ tsp Mustard seeds
- 7-8 Curry Leaves
To Grind
- 1 tbsp Grated coconut
- 1 tsp coriander seeds
- ½ tsp urad dal
- 2 Red Chilis
- ½ tsp chana dal
Ingredients
To Grind
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Instructions
- Take out the skin of the ash gourd and cut them into cubes.
- Soak the peanuts for an hour and pressure-cook it without adding much water. Add little salt while cooking the peanuts.
- Pressure-cook the toor dal by adding little turmeric powder. The dal should be mushy.
- Heat oil in a skillet and roast all the ingredients to be ground.
- When the dal turn golden brown switch off the flame and allow this to cool.
- Add the cooked toor dal and grind the roasted ingredients. Grind using little water and make it to a paste.
- In a pan add the cut ash gourd and add the tamarind water.
- Add salt, turmeric powder, asafetida, sambar powder and salt. Let this boil for few minutes till the raw smell of the tamarind and sambar powder goes.
- Halfway through add the cooked peanuts and the ground paste.
- Let this boil nicely and then temper with mustard seeds and curry leaves.
- Serve.
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