Tomato kootu recipe | Thakkali kootu – Easy to make Ripe tomato kootu recipe – Simple kootu recipe with full video and step by step pictures.
Kootu is one of our most favorite dish. We make different varieties of kootu with different vegetables. Usually we make this simple type of kootu for dinner or as an extra accompaniment for a meal. Usually, we make kootu using raw tomato, thakkali kai kootu. This one is using ripe tomato. A friend recently shared about making kootu using ripe tomato. When you are running out of veggies at home this can be made just with tomatoes and moong dal.
This Thakkali kootu can be mixed with rice or as an accompaniment for Vatha kuzhambu or Puli kuzhambu. You can make this in our Poricha kootu style or in Molagootal style too.
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Thakkali kootu recipe
Thakkali kootu recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup tomato cubes
- ½ cup yellow moong dal
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- ¼ tsp asafoetida
- Salt as needed
- 2 tsp coconut oil
- ½ tsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp urad dal
- Few curry leaves
- 1 red chili
- ¼ cup coconut
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
Instructions
- In a vessel add the moong dal and wash it well
- Add 1 cup of water, ½ tsp turmeric powder, and 2 pinches of asafoetida.
- Pressure cook this for 4-5 whistles.
- Keep the cooked dal aside.
- Grind the coconut, green chili, and cumin seeds into a fine paste.
- In a pan add coconut oil. Add mustard seeds, urad dal, red chili, asafoetida, and curry leaves.
- Once the mustard seeds crackle and urad dal turn golden brown add the cubed tomatoes.
- Saute this for 2 minutes.
- Add 1 cup of water to this.
- Add the salt.
- Let this boil for 3 minutes.
- Now add the cooked dal to this.
- Mix well and add the ground coconut paste to this.
- Add water to adjust the consistency.
- Let this boil for 3-4 minutes.
- Switch off the flame.
- Garnish with few curry leaves.
- Tomato kootu | thakkli kootu is ready.
Notes
2. Tomato kootu | thakkali kootu pairs well with plain rice and chapati too.
- In a vessel add the moong dal and wash it well
- Add 1 cup of water, ½ tsp turmeric powder and 2 pinches of asafoetida.
- Pressure cook this for 4-5 whistles.
- Keep the cooked dal aside.
- Grind the coconut, green chili and cumin seeds into a fine paste.
- In a pan add coconut oil. Add mustard seeds, urad dal, red chili, asafoetida, and curry leaves.
- Once the mustard seeds crackle and urad dal turn golden brown add the cubed tomatoes.
- Saute this for 2 minutes.
- Add 1 cup of water to this.
- Add the salt.
- Let this boil for 3 minutes.
- Now add the cooked dal to this.
- Mix well and add the ground coconut paste to this.
- Add water to adjust the consistency.
- Let this boil for 3-4 minutes.
- Garnish with few curry leaves.
- Tomato kootu | thakkli kootu is ready.
- You can add 1 tsp of sambar powder after adding the tomatoes.
- Tomato kootu | thakkali kootu pairs well with plain rice and chapati too.
