Paal Kootu
Paal kootu
Paal Kootu @Radha Natarajan Your Everyday cook Paal kootu with podalangai ( snakegourds ) is a traditional yummy side dish prepaed using milk and adding a ground paste . usually vegetables like yellow pumpkins are used and so also snakegourds .
Ingredients: paal kootu
2 cups chopped snakegourds
salt
turmeric powder
2 tbsp soaked chana dal ( soak ahead for 15 minutes )
Method
pressure cook above for 1 whistle
Coconut chilly paste
1 cup coconut
1 tsp cumin
3 red chillies grind to paste above mentioned
Take 4 tbsp milk in a bowl add 1 tbsp rice flour, mix well and add this mixture to cooked snakegourds along with ground coocnut paste .
Keep flame on low, do not boil .
add tempering 1 tsp coconut oil
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp split udad dal
2 red chillies
curry leaves
add to the paal kootu .
mix well
serve If you do not have fresh coconut 🥥, use coconut milk in the recipe and skip adding plain milk , add rice flour to thicken the gravy a bit.
Lunch menu with paal kootu
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