Koottu curry is an important dish in Kerala Onam sadhya. I have prepared kootu curry with yam, plantain and bengal gram dal. Today let us learn how to make Onam Special Koottu curry following this easy koottu curry recipe.
Soak bengal gram for 15 minutes in warm water and pressure cook until soft.
Peel the skin and chop plantain and yam into medium size pieces.
Grind coconut, red chilli and cumin seeds coarsely and keep it aside.
Pressure cook both plantain and yam with turmeric powder, salt and chilli powder for 2 whistles or until soft.
Add the cooked bengal gram and jaggery to the above.
Then add the ground paste and boil until it thickens.
Now heat a tsp of coconut oil, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add red chilli, curry leaves and pour this seasoning over the koottu curry.
Fry 1/4 cup of grated coconut until it becomes golden brown and add to the kootu curry.
Serve it with rice.
Use coconut oil for Authentic Kerala taste.
Kerala Koottu Curry-Onam Special
Prep Time : 10 mins
Cook Time : 15 mins
Serves: 3
Recipe Category: Side dish-Curry
Recipe Cuisine: Kerala
Serves: 3
Recipe Category: Side dish-Curry
Recipe Cuisine: Kerala
Ingredients needed
Elephant foot yam/senai – 200 grams
Plantain – 2
Channa dal / Kadalai paruppu /Bengal gram – 1/4 cup
Turmeric powder -1/4 tsp
Chilli powder – 1 tsp
Jaggery – 3/4 tsp
Salt as required
For grinding
Grated coconut – 1/3 cup
Red chilli – 2
Cumin seeds /Jeeragam -3/4 tsp
For the seasoning
Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
Red chilli – 1
Curry leaves – few
Grated coconut – 1/4 cup (to be roasted)
Preparation
Soak bengal gram for 15 minutes in warm water and pressure cook until soft.
Peel the skin and chop plantain and yam into medium size pieces.
Grind coconut, red chilli and cumin seeds coarsely and keep it aside.
Method
Pressure cook both plantain and yam with turmeric powder, salt and chilli powder for 2 whistles or until soft.
Add the cooked bengal gram and jaggery to the above.
Then add the ground paste and boil until it thickens.
Now heat a tsp of coconut oil, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add red chilli, curry leaves and pour this seasoning over the koottu curry.
Fry 1/4 cup of grated coconut until it becomes golden brown and add to the kootu curry.
Serve it with rice.
Use coconut oil for Authentic Kerala taste.
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mmm!!1 Delicious!!!Adding coconut oil would be make it more aromatic!!! 🙂
Lovely flavourful thick kootu tempts me a lot..
Mmmmm…this is one of my favorite items on the sadhya menu…looks delicious
looks delicious dear 🙂
wow delicious kuttu,tempting me to try immediately…luks yum.
This looks delicious!!!
Prathima Rao
Prats Corner
Its looks delicious………..
I wish i had this yummy yumm.
An traditional and truly delicious recipe.. I'm missing yam now!!
If bengal gram(kadala) is used peppercorn should be ground along with the coconut. Pepper is a must in koottucurry with kadala
Thanks will try! In some of your recipes you added pictures. If video is not there then for people like us it helps to see cuttings and size. Thing is I never ate this dish. I’ll see close up pics or videos of others for that but will definitely follow your recipe. Your dishes are full proof for my family as they love them all. Thanks
Thank you so much. I am uploading Padhuskitchen recipes videos on YouTube one by one. It is very difficult for me to embed all the videos here due to technical issues. You can check Padhuskitchen Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBhMoHxBoO825RVTqVykSMw