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This recipe might seem like sambhar rice,but has a different taste.It is a special from Tirunelveli and my favourite as I'm also from Tirunelveli.
Ingredients:
- Toor dal-100 gms
- Rice-2 cups
- Salt
- Turmeric
- Asafoetida
- Tamarind-small lemon size
- Coconut 1/4 cup (grated)
- Cumin seeds-1 tsp
- Red chillies 10
- Red onion 6
- Raw Mango-sliced
- Peas
- Spinach
- Carrot
- Beans
- Brinjal (egg plant)
- Potatoes
- Drumstick - 1 cut
- Plantain(vazhaikkai) -1
- Water(the usual amount you use to cook rice+1 cup for the vegetables)
Preparation:
- Add grated coconut,cumin seeds,red chillies,red onions to the mixer and make it into a paste.
- Soak tamarind in water and make a paste out of it.
- Now add rice,toor dal,vegetables(cut),turmeric powder,salt,asafoetida,water and the coconut paste into the cooker and add the tamarind paste to it.
- Close the lid and cook for 10 mins
- The rice should not be separate in kootanchoru.
- Serve it with vadagam and pickles.
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5 comments:
I am really happy to see this recipe ...have been searching for this recipe for a long while as it is my fav too.I like this not only because it is a popular dish from my place but also because it has no oil,rich in protein and has a lot of veg in it and not much masala involved.Keep up the good work.I m going to try it today and will tell the result.
i look delicious....have to try it soon...i had eaten it in my childhood...i dunno the preparation...just came to knew now and it looks as same i had...thanks for posting....
I had been searching for this recipe all along!
thanx!
Dear Malliga..
I tried out this recipe of urs....it tasted really good.thank u so much yaar.In addition i jus added to it little ghee,corrriander leaf and open coooked the whole thing.Finally(thalikka) in a pan added coconut oil,mustard,curry leaf,dry chilly,jeera.I added this thalicha contents with the kootanchoru.this added lil more flavour..
im very much eager to try ur other recipes too..
I am happy that I came to your site by chance .You have a lovely space.
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