Vazhapoo Kootu

After a short break am back with a healthy recipe, and my favorite too...

Ingredients:

Banana Blossom - cleaned and chopped 1 cup

Curry leaves - few

Mustard seed - 1/ 4 tsp

Onion - 1 no. finely chopped

Tomato - 1 no. chopped

Bengal Gram Dal - 1/2 cup (Soaked for 2 hours)

Oil to temper

Salt to taste

Sambar powder - 2 tsp

Grind:

Coconut - 1 tbsp

Garlic - 2 nos.

Jeera - 1/2 tsp

Method:

Heat a pressure pan with oil and temper it with curry leaves and mustard.

Add Onion and tomatoes and saute well.

Add the Sambar powder and saute until the raw smell goes.

Add Soaked dal and chopped Vazhaipoo to the pressure pan.

Add the grinded coconut and salt.

Add required amount of water.

Close the lid and put whistle.

Allow to cook till 3 whistle.

Serve it with Rice.