Thiruvathirai Kootu Recipe
A delicious South Indian dish that would pair well with rotis or rice.
Servings
2
Servings
2
Ingredients
To grind
Instructions
  1. Wash, peel, and cut all vegetable to small cubes.
  2. In a pressure cooker, add veggies, turmeric powder, salt, sambar powder and some water and cook for one whistle.
  3. In a pan, add the ingredients for grinding with a little oil and fry to a golden brown color and grind to a powder consistency.
  4. Cook the taro separately until tender and peel and cut to cubes.
  5. Add the tamarind extract and taro to the veggies and boil until the raw smell goes.
  6. Grind coconut separately with a little water and add to the boiling mix.
  7. Add the ground powder, grated Jaggery, cooked and mashed toor dal and mix it well.
  8. In a pan, heat oil and add mustard seeds and curry leaves. Add to the kootu when done.
  9. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with rice or rotis.