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Kootanchoru Recipe/Tirunelveli Special Kootanchoru Recipe is given below with step-by-step instructions and important tips to make a tasty Kootanchoru recipe.

How to make Kootanchoru Recipe? | Kootanchoru Recipe | Tirunelveli Special Kootanchoru Recipe

Kootanchoru Recipe/Tirunelveli Special Kootanchoru Recipe is an uncomplicated, traditional and rustic one-pot meal prepared with rice, lentils, vegetables, spices and fresh leafy greens. It is a simple recipe you can easily prepare within an hour and serve as a lunch meal or picnic meal. The Kootanchoru Recipe/Tirunelveli Special Kootanchoru Recipe is given below with step-by-step instructions and important tips to make a tasty Kootanchoru recipe.

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Before moving on to the Kootanchoru Recipe/Tirunelveli Special Kootanchoru Recipe. Let's know about -

What is Kootanchoru Recipe?

Kootanchoru is a popular recipe from the city Tirunelveli (Nellai) of Tamilnadu state. Kootanchoru is a unique recipe which is prepared with rice, lentils, spices, country vegetables and fresh leafy greens in one pot.

Meaning of Kootanchoru

To define the word "kootanchoru" -

It is syllable into two words - Kootu+Choru.

Here "kootu" means "together" and "choru" means "rice".

This dish "Kootanchoru" is interestingly named for a few reasons -

1. Rice is cooked together with lentils, country vegetables, leafy greens and spices in one pot.

or,

2. Kootanchoru recipe is mostly cooked at a family get-together. So all the family members joined together to make this dish.

or,

3. Even friends and neighbours joined together in a common place and make this dish together.

All right, let's move on to the Kootanchoru recipe ingredient followed by the Kootanchoru Recipe/Tirunelveli Special Kootanchoru Recipe and important tips to make a tasty Kootanchoru recipe.

Kootanchoru Recipe Ingredient

Kootanchoru recipe is an uncomplicated and rustic South Indian dish made with rice, lentils, spices and particularly country vegetables like Drumstick, Brinjal, Broad Beans, Yam, Cluster Beans, Raw Mango, Raw Banana and many more vegetables. Kootanchoru Recipe also includes fresh leafy greens like Spleen Amaranth/Arai Keerai and mainly Drumstick leaves/Murungai keerai.

If you are new to the Drumstick leaves/Murungai keerai ingredient. Kindly, click the below link -
🔗Drumstick leaves/Murungai keerai

Also, check out -
🔗Spleen Amaranth/Arai Keerai

How to make Kootanchoru Recipe?/Kootanchoru Recipe/Tirunelveli Special Kootanchoru Recipe

Kootanchoru Recipe/Tirunelveli Special Kootanchoru Recipe is an uncomplicated, traditional and rustic one-pot meal prepared with rice, lentils, vegetables, spices and fresh leafy greens. It is a simple recipe you can easily prepare within an hour and serve as a lunch meal or picnic meal.

Cuisine - South India
Serving - 5
Timing - 45 minutes

INGREDIENTS

Rice - 1 cup
Toor Dal - 1/2 cup
Mixed Country Vegetables - 3 cups
Onion - 1
Tomato - 1
Turmeric powder - 1/2 spoon
Tamarind - lemon size
Drumstick leaves - 1 cup (tightly measured)
Coriander leaves - 2 tablespoons
Water - 5 cups

FOR PASTE

Small onions - 5
Garlic - 2
Jeera - 1 teaspoon
Dry Red Chilli - 6
Coconut (grated) - 1/2 cup

FOR TEMPERING

Sesame Oil - 2 tablespoons
Mustard and Urad Dal - 1 teaspoon
Asafoetida - 1/2 teaspoon

INSTRUCTIONS

1. To begin making the Kootanchoru Recipe - Firstly, wash rice and toor dal together and soak for 30 minutes. Soak the tamarind in a cup of water. Wash and rough chop the mixed vegetables. Wash and strain the fresh greens. Keep all the ingredients ready.

2. To Paste - In a mixer grinder, add grated coconut, small onions, garlic, jeera and dry red chilli and grind to a fine paste.

3. To Cook - In a pressure cooker, add soaked rice and lentils, turmeric powder, chopped vegetables, leafy greens salt and 4 cups of water and cook for 5 whistles.

4. Turn off the flame and allow the pressure to subside gradually.

5. Open the pressure cooker, add the ground paste and tamarind water and cook for 2-3 minutes.

6. Meanwhile, heat oil in a pan add mustard seeds, let them splutter and add chopped onion and fry to golden brown add to the pressure cooker and mix well.

7. Finally add asafoetida and coriander leaves mix well and serve.

8. Kootanchoru Recipe/Tirunelveli Special Kootanchoru Recipe is ready.

You can serve this Tirunelveli Special Kootanchoru Recipe/Kootanchoru Recipe as a lunch meal or as a picnic meal.

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Important tips to make a tasty Kootanchoru Recipe

1. Kootanchoru is an uncomplicated recipe, you really do not need any accurate measurement of ingredients to make, especially vegetables.

2. You can use any of your favourite vegetables preferably country vegetables for an authentic taste of the kootanchoru recipe.

3. You can use sesame oil or coconut oil or ghee to temper this dish.

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