Recipe Text
Ingredients:
- Pigeon Peas – 1/3Cup (70gms)
- Chopped Cabbage – 200gms
For Paste:
- Coriander Seeds – 1 1/2tsps
- Cumin Seeds – 1tsp
- Coconut Pieces – 40gms
(1/4Cup-Heaped)
- Asafoetida – 1/8tsp
For Seasoning:
- Black Gram – 2tsps
- Mustard Seeds – 1tsp
- Cumin Seeds – 1tsp
- Curry Leaves – Few
- Green Chilies – 5
- Red Chilies – 2
- Asafoetida – 1/8tsp
- Turmeric Powder – 1/4tsp
- Oil – 5tsps
- Salt to Taste
- Lemon Juice – 1tbsp
For Garnishing:
Preparations:
First
we need to cook the lentils. Take dal into a bowl and add water. Wash
the dal
and discard the water. Fill the dal bowl with sufficient water to cook
it.
Place this bowl in a pressure cooker and cook it. When pressure develops
in the
cooker lower the flame and cook for 15 minutes. Once the cooker cools
down
remove the bowl of cooked dal and keep it aside.
Similarly
we need to cook the cabbage. Take a microwave safe bowl and add the
chopped
cabbage. Add 50ml water to the cabbage and place this bowl in a
microwave oven.
Cover the bowl partially and cook cabbage on high power for 5 minutes.
Stir
once with spoon and if required add another 50ml water to the cabbage.
Place
the bowl in microwave oven and cover it partially. Now cook again on
high power
for 5 minutes. Allow 3 minutes standing time before removing the bowl
from the
oven.
To
make the paste, take a mixie jar. Add coriander seeds, coconut pieces,
cumin
seeds and asafoetida to the mixie jar. Run the mixer grinder and grind
the
ingredients in the mixie jar. Stir once and add around 70ml water and
grind to
a smooth paste. Take that paste into a separate bowl and keep it aside.
Fry
cashew nuts in medium hot oil till golden in color. Take these fried
cashew
nuts into a plate and keep them aside.
Wash
green chilies and break each chili into 2 pieces. Slit twice, each chili
keeping the head intact.
Similarly
break each red chili into 2 pieces and keep them aside.
Method:
Heat
a pan and add oil to it. When the oil is hot add the black gram and fry
till
the seeds start changing color. Then add mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
Fry
till the seeds splutter. Add green chili pieces, red chili pieces and
asafoetida. Fry the seasoning well and add curry leaves. Fry for few
seconds
and add turmeric powder. Mix well and add the cooked cabbage followed by
cooked
dal. Mix well and add water to desired consistency. Now add salt and
ground
paste. Mix all well and cook on low flame for 5 minutes. Then switch off
the
flame and add lemon juice. Mix well and transfer the Kootu to a serving
bowl.
Garnish the Kootu with fried cashew nuts and serve hot with plain rice. |
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Points to Notice:
Kootu
is a preparation which will be less hot (KAMMAGA UNTUNDI). Those who
want their
Kootu to be hot add more green and red chilies. But do not add red chili
powder
as the color of the Kootu will not be attractive.
Grinding
the paste till smooth is very important. One should not notice coconut
in the
paste—grind till that smooth.
Cabbage
when cooked in pressure cooker gets mashed up and also smells bad. So
cook dal
and cabbage separately.
Frying
the green chilies in oil removes their hot property. So fry the green
chilies
till white spots appear on them.
The
fragrance of coriander and cumin seeds in the paste gives a unique
flavor to
this kootu. It is different from dal and sambar taste. As it is less
spicy it
will be liked by all age groups.
Enjoy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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thank you so much gayatri garu..
waiting for vadiyalu
like annam
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chestharu ippatiki aa taste gurthundhi recipe matram theliyadhu.my friends
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April 22, 2011 11:57 AM
- varsha said...
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hi gayatri ur recepie.s r really g8 I don't understand telagu but stii I
could understand the method
tas it is both English n telagu so keep it up
try to help people to lose weight encourage them
plz want to know
recepies like gawar Louki turnip Tutsi n lotus root if u can
good job keep
good work going"...........
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April 24, 2011 12:38 AM
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Hello Gayatri Garu,
It was a good experience navigating through your
site. Simple yet Pragmatic!!!
Although I am Sales Manager by profession,
i enjoy cooking and it is one activity I love to indulge in. It allows me to
constantly keep challenging myself to do things differently but tasting better
than the last time.
While i keenly follow your site, I also follow Mr.
Sanjay Thumma's site ( vahrevah.com) . Both are distinctive in their own rights
and i enjoy watching both the sites.
I am basically from Vizag and
currently based out of London.When i got to know you are from VZM, I thought it
would be great if my wife and I could catch up with you in VZM and share few
experiences we have had around our cooking experiments.
Do let us know
about your thoughts on the same and also we would like to thank you for the
fantastic work you do in keeping those tantalizing recipes coming in!!!
Kudos.
Warm Regards,
Haragopal
p.s. i happened to see the
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and i have always loved the Pahal rassogulas and chenna podas.. :)
April 26, 2011 2:33 AM
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hello, gaytrigaru namaskaramulu. meeru chhpettina vantalu chala brhmandanga
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April 20, 2011 1:27 PM
- Anonymous said...
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An amazing effort!!! Can you please post your authentic version of Dum
Biriyani using microwave oven. I Ha LG8080PRR combo oven with Convection/grill
mode
Thanks
Warm Regards
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April 20, 2011 9:59 AM
- Sai Geetha said...
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Hello Gayatri garu,
All ur recipes come out excellently. I love ur
recipes, I tried the cabbage kootu recipe, it was really good. Ur site is a boon
for people like me who r learning to cook. I want to try gavvalu also. Could u
pls advise how to make kaaram gavvalu also. Thankyou !!!
April 20, 2011 1:49 AM
Lakhan said...Hello Gayatri!
This is to congratulate you on two of your
recipes .…one was the “CABBAGE KOOTU” and the other was
“SANNA-KARAPA-POOSA”…..both items came out VERY WELL and all of us were
laughing like kids as we sang along with ( your video-signature tune’s)
lovable Ghatotkacha
“ah-haha-hahah-haaa!! //Lakhan
December 10, 2009 6:28 AM
Aruna said...Hello Gayatri garu,
I have tried 3 of your recipes.Cabbage
kootu, Cabbage pesarapappu curry, capsicum methi curry. Even I am a
good cook but your curries are different from what I do. They are really
delicious. Even my husband liked them. I am gonna try other recipes
too. Thank you so much for the delicious and tasty recipes. Thank you so
much for your website. Vanta raani vallaki kuda easy ga vanta
nerchukune chala baga unnayi mee videos. Thanks a lot
Aruna
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