Indian Cooking Recipe: Vegetable Kootu Curry
The following are the instructions on how to cook delicious Indian food: Vegetable Kootu Curry
Ingredients:
1. 1 cup cooked bengal gram dal
2. 2 potatoes
3. 5 string beans
4. 1 bit snake gourd
5. 1 bitter gourd
6. 1 stem of spinach
7. 3/4 cup first milk drawn from grated coconut
8. 3 cups second and third extractions
9. 1/2 tsp turmeric paste
10. 1 pinch sauf (aniseed)
11. 1 pinch jeera
12. 1 pinch mustard seeds
13. 1/8 tsp black gram dal
14. 2 pieces cinnamon, 1 inch long
15. 1/2 cup small onions, sliced long
16. 1/2 cup onions, sliced thin
17. 10 green chillies, sliced round
18. 4 flakes garlic
19. 1/2 tsp ginger, sliced
20. 1 stalk curry leaves
21. 3 tsp coconut oil
22. Salt to taste
23. Lime juice from half a lemon.
Method of Preparation:
Cut the vegetables into 1 inch long slices. Grind roasted sauf and jeera. Heat coconut oil and fry mustard, black gram dhal and cinnamon. Fry small onions, one after the other. Add sliced onion, green chillies, garlic and ginger, curry leaves and salt. Add vegetables and the second and third extractions of coconut milk. Mix turmeric and salt and cook covering the pan. When vegetables are done mix the gourd, aniseed and cumin seeds, boiled bengal gram dal and first extraction of coconut milk. When it is cooked, remove and sprinkle lime juice.
