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Hotel style kootu recipe

Hotel-style kootu recipe – Easy to make South Indian hotel-style snake gourd kootu recipe with step-by-step pictures and full video.

We usually make kootu | poricha kootu without onion and garlic. Whenever we order South meals in hotels, we get a kootu in the thali. It goes well with chapati and poori also, they give in the thali meal. I always wanted to try out this kootu at home.

A few weeks back, when we had lunch at a South Indian restaurant here. So sharing today the Tamilnadu Hotel Kootu recipe. We are adding garlic, onion, and tomato to this kootu. I used snake gourd in this recipe. You can use ash gourd, chow chow, avarakkai, beans carrot peas, cabbage, or ridge gourd for making this kootu. Even keerai | spinach can be used for making this Hotel style kootu.

Also check out Hotel sambar, Hotel style paruppu rasam, Instant mor kuzhambu

 

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Hotel style kootu recipe

Tamilnadu hotel style vegetable kootu - Veggies cooked in dal
Course Dinner, Lunch, Main Course
Cuisine Indian, South Indian
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 4
Author Jeyashri suresh

Ingredients

  • 2 cups chopped snake gourd
  • ½ cup yellow moong dal uncooked
  • 3 tbsp chana dal
  • 1 onion
  • 1 tomato
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 1 tsp red chili powder
  • ½ tsp turmeric powder
  • 3 tsp oil
  • ½ tsp mustard seeds
  • A pinch of asafoetida
  • Water as needed
  • Curry leaves few
  • Salt to taste
  • 4 tbsp coconut
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • 1-2 green chilis

Instructions

  • In a vessel add the yellow moong dal and chana dal.
  • Wash it well and add the garlic cloves, chopped tomato and onion.
  • Add the red chili powder and turmeric powder.
  • Add 1.5 cups of water to this.
  • Now top it up with the chopped snake gourd. You can add any vegetable of your choice.
  • Check out the ‘Notes’ section to see the options.
  • Since we are topping the veggies on the top, it won’t turn mushy while we cook this.
  • Now pressure cook this for 4-5 whistles.
  • Grind the coconut, green chili and cumin seeds into a fine paste.
  • I added 1 green chili and later felt it was less.
  • In a pan add the oil and mustard seeds.
  • Once it starts to splutter, add the curry leaves and asafoetida to this.
  • Now add the cooked dal and vegetable mixture to this.
  • Add the ground coconut paste.
  • Now add ½ cup-1 cup of water to adjust the consistency.
  • Add in the salt.
  • Mix well and let this boil for 5 minutes. Keep stirring in between.
  • Switch off the flame.
  • You can serve this with plain rice or with dosai and chapathi too.
  • This kootu pairs well with rice and kara kuzhambu too.

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Notes

1. You can use cabbage, beans, carrot, avarakkai, bottle gourd, ash gourd, chow chow or keerai instead of snake gourd.
2. This hotel-style kootu goes well with chapathi too.
  • In a vessel add the yellow moong dal and chana dal.
  • Wash it well and add the garlic cloves, chopped tomato, and onion.
  • Add the red chili powder and turmeric powder.
  • Add 1.5 cups of water to this.
  • Now top it up with the chopped snake gourd. You can add any vegetable of your choice.
Hotel style kootu
  • Check out the ‘Notes’ section to see the options.
  • Since we are topping the veggies on the top, it won’t turn mushy while we cook this.
  • Now pressure cook this for 4-5 whistles.
Hotel-style kootu
  • Grind the coconut, green chili, and cumin seeds into a fine paste.
  • I added 1 green chili and later felt it was less.
Hotel style kootu recipe
  • In a pan add the oil and mustard seeds.
  • Once it starts to splutter, add the curry leaves and asafoetida to this.
  • Now add the cooked dal and vegetable mixture to this.
Hotel style kootu
  • Add the ground coconut paste.
  • Now add ½ cup-1 cup of water to adjust the consistency.
  • Add in the salt.
  • Mix well and let this boil for 5 minutes. Keep stirring in between.
Hotel style kootu
  • Switch off the flame.
  • You can serve this with plain rice or with dosai and chapati too.
  • This kootu pairs well with rice and kara kuzhambu too.
Hotel style kootu

Notes:

  1. You can use cabbage, beans, carrot, avarakkai, bottle gourd, ash gourd, chow chow, or keerai instead of snake gourd.
  2. This hotel-style kootu goes well with chapati too.

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