Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, green tomato dal / thakallikai kootu. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Thakkali Kai Kootu is prepared with raw tomatoes (nattu variety) or unripe tomatoes. Green Tomato dal is such a simple yet easy and tasty recipe. This Tomato dal is made with toor dal and Green Tomatoes (tomatillo) cooked in a pressure.
Green Tomato Dal / Thakallikai Kootu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Green Tomato Dal / Thakallikai Kootu is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook green tomato dal / thakallikai kootu using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Green Tomato Dal / Thakallikai Kootu:
- Get 300 grams Green Tomato
- Prepare 2 cups Moong dal Cooked
- Get 1/4 tsp turmeric
- Prepare 2 tbsps toor dal
- Get rock salt
- Make ready 1 tbsp rasam powder / satthumadhu podi
- Make ready 1 tsp asafoetida / hing
- Prepare 8 chillies dry red
- Make ready 30 grams coconut grated
- Prepare 1 tbsp ghee butter / clarified
- Get 1 tsp mustard seed
- Get 1 tsp white urad daal
- Prepare curry leaves
Even though moong dal is added, we make it watery in consistency so that it tastes juicy with idli. Both adults & kids would love this recipe. Serve hot with steaming rice with a liberal dose of ghee or you can cook it a bit thick and serve as an accompaniment with sambar rice as a kootu. Cooking greens with dal is the safest thing to do when you are trying new greens.
Steps to make Green Tomato Dal / Thakallikai Kootu:
- Pressure cook the moong dal with required amount of water. Add little turmeric to this.
- Take a kadaai, and add a tablespoon of oil, and all the ingredients given under "for the paste", except coconut and rasam powder and saute them until they turn golden brown. While adding salt add it wisely, because we add salt to cook the tomatoes too.
- Take a blender jar and add the roasted ingredients with grated coconut and rasam powder, add little water and grind it to a smooth paste.
- Take a vessel / pot, keep it on low flame. Add 1 1/2 cups of water and add the chopped tomatoes. Add little salt.
- This takes about 6-7 minutes to cook. Stir the tomatoes while cooking them, do not mash them.
- Check if the tomatoes are cooked.
- Add the cooked dal to this and stir.
- Now add the ground paste to this and stir. Allow it to boil for 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
- Take the same kadaai used to roast the ingredients for the paste for tempering. Add all the ingredients given under "tempering".
- Add this tempering to the kootu.
- Serve it hot with plain white rice.
Tomato Kootu is a spicy South Indian dish and is very popular in Tamilnadu. Learn how to make/prepare Tomato Kutu by following this easy recipe. Remove the tomatoes and let them cool. Peel off the skin and keep aside. Add green gram dal and boil well until.
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