Sirukizhangu Kootu / Koorkan kizhangu Kootu

This is how my Amma prepare sirukizhangu. This recipe is made with green gram which gives an excellent taste to the dish. It goes very well with rasam. This is one of the recipe my Amma don't want to convince me to eat. But the sad part is we get it only 3 months in a year. So when December starts I will be happy as I we can get this in the markets shortly. And I will be getting ready to eat this yummy dish.

Anyway, so obviously being a huge fan of sirukizhangu I love this dish so much. Try it in the next season and post your valuable comments.

Sirukizhangu Kootu

Ingredients:

Sirukizhangu / Koorkan kizhangu - 15

Green gram dal / sirupayatham paruppu - 3/4 cup

Tomato - 1

Green chilli - 6

Grated Coconut - 1/4 cup

Small onion - 8

Turmeric - 1/4 tsp

Salt - to taste

To Temper:

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves - a sprig

Oil - 1 tblspn

Method:

Grind together coconut and small onion without adding water.

Wash and cook potato until done. Cool down and peel its skin. Cut them into small cubes.

Dry roast(or add few drops of oil) green gram dal and split it with a help of mortar. Blow off unwanted skins.

Pressure cook split green gram dal along with tomato, green chilli, turmeric and mash it.

Then, add chopped potatoes to this dal, add in little water and salt.

Cook until water reduces and remove from flame.

Do the tempering add to this and mix well.

Serve with rice, rasam. Enjoy.

Note:

• Taste will be better in whole green gram than in skinless moong dal.

 Pictorial:

Keep your ingredients ready

Soak sirukizhangu in water for 5 mins so that it will be easy to remove the sands

Pressure cook for 3 whistles. When pressure is released, peel its skin and chop them into small pieces

Take onion, coconut and cumin in a blender and grind them into a paste without adding water

In a pan, pour few drops of oil and add green gram dal. Fry till it changes color

Split them with the help of mortar

Blow off to remove unwanted skins

In a pressure cooker, take split dal, tomato, slit green chilli,turmeric, salt and cook till it becomes soft

Mash the cooked dal

Add chopped sirukizhangu, coconut paste and little water. Check for salt

You can cook for 5 to 10 mins with the lids open or pressure cook for 2 whistles

Do the tempering and pout over it

Its ready