Mixed Vegetable Poricha Kuzhambu
A quick and easy Poricha Kootu for weeknight dinner with any leftover vegetables in the refrigerator. Works great with rice, idli or dosai!
Ingredients
- Potato – 2 medium chopped finely
- Carrot – 2 chopped finely
- Cabbage – 1 cup chopped
- Peas – ½ cup
- Tuvaram paruppu / Toor Dal – ½ cup
- Sambhar powder – ½ tsp
- Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
- Salt – to taste
To fry and grind –
- Oil – 2 tsp
- Ullutham paruppu / urad dal – 2 tbsp
- Red chili – 4
- Black pepper corn – 1 tsp
- Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
- Coconut – ½ cup grated
To season –
- Oil preferably coconut oil – 2 tsp
- Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
- Ullutham paruppu / urad dal – 2 tsp
- Curry leaves – few
- Asafetida – ⅛th tsp
Instructions
- Wash and cook the toor dal until soft and mushy. Keep it aside.
- Chop all the vegetables and place them in a pot. Add enough water to cover the vegetables.
- Then add the turmeric powder and sambhar powder and cook until the vegetables are soft.
- Add salt and let it cook for about 5 more minutes.
- In the meantime, fry all the ingredients mentioned under the table and grind it to a smooth paste when it cools down.
- Once the vegetables are cooked, add the ground paste along with the cooked toor dal and mix well. Adjust the consistency of the kootu based on your preference.
- Let it simmer for about 5 to 7 minutes.
- Fry the seasonings in coconut oil and add it to the kootu.
- Serve with rice, idli, dosai or chapatti.