Pongal 7 Curry Kootu (7 Vegetables Curry)
About Pongal 7 Curry Kootu (7 Vegetables Curry)
Pongal is celebrated as a Thanksgiving Day when people show gratitude to the Sun God for giving bumper harvest and pray for his grace to shower abundance and prosperity in the coming days. It is also the day when Sun begins its northward journey, causing change of season.Newly harvested rice is cooked with milk and Jaggery called Pongal. Along with this sweet this mixed vegetable curry with newly harvested root vegetables and green vegetables are made in large quantity which is kept for the next day also.
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Recipe Time & More
Ingredients
- 1-2 piece Yellow Pumpkin (ash-gourd, field beans(mochai), arbi/tara root/sepan kizhangu, drumstick, broad beans, sweet potato, carrot etc.,, or vegetable from each vegetable like)
- a large Tamarind Juice (or lemon extracted from size lemon)
- 1 cup Thur Dal 1 Cup Pressure Cooked (thur dal pressure cooked)
- to leaves Turmeric Powder (or salt, or curry salt taste curry)
- a piece Gooseberry (or jagerry jagerry size)
- Mustard Seeds
- 3 spoons Oil (tea)
- 1/4 spoon Hing Powder (tea)
- Curry (or gravy for gravy)
- 3 spoons Coriander Seeds (tb)
- Chana Dal (bengal gram 1 tb spoon)
- 2 spoon Urad Dal (tea)
- 8 Red Chillies
- 1 / Fenugreek Seeds (vendhayam tea spoon)
- 2 spoons Oil (tea)
- 2 spoons Grated Coconut (freshly tb)
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Instructions
- In a pan heat oil and fry all the items given under curry gravy except coconut to golden brown, keep aside. In the same pan fry the coconut till the colour starts to change and add to the roasted items. Once the stuff gets cooled grind them to paste.
- In a broad pan or cooker bottom add all the veggies with tamarind water, salt and turmeric powder. Allow them to boil till the veggies become soft.
- Add the hing powder, Jaggery and boiled Thur dal and mix well.let them boil for 3 minutes. Now add the ground paste to it and mix well.
- Add more fresh curry leaves. Let them all boil together for 5 minutes. Now switch off the stove. Do the seasoning in oil with mustard seeds and curry leaves and add to the kootu.
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This looks so appetizing! Thank you.
This looks incredible! Thank you.
What a delicious idea! Thanks for sharing.
This looks so inviting! I’m eager to try it.
Love your traditional bowl and of course the recipes.