Our friends Anu and Jaimon have a small farm, where they grow vegetables like brinjal, pumpkin, beans, green tomatoes and more….. such fresh vegetables…i think i could eat them raw :-)….so when i visited them last week, i plucked green tomatoes and brinjal… (never thought i would pluck vegetables in a city 🙂 )
So here goes…. Green tomato kootu with coconut and dhal
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Ingredients
- 6 Nos Green Tomatoes
- 3/4 Cup Moon dhal
For Ground mixture
- 1 Cup Grated coconut
- 1 Tsp Jeera
- Green chillies As per Taste
- 1/2 Tsp Raw rice
- Water for grinding to a paste
- Seasonings Mustard seeds, jeera, channa dal, curry leaves and turmeric powder
- 1 Tbsp Oil
- Salt As per taste
Ingredients
For Ground mixture
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Instructions
- Pressure cook dhal in a cooker till well done.
- Dice the tomatoes in med size pieces and set aside.
- Heat oil in a kadai and 1 tsp each of the seasonings mentioned.
- Once the mustard has spluttered and the channa dal is light brown in colour,add the diced tomatoes.
- Add salt and mix the tomatoes nicely in the kadai and let it cook (cook till they are about 90% cooked).
- Grind the ingredients as mentioned above to a nice paste and add to the kadai.
- Mash the cooked dhal to a paste and add to the kadai with tomatoes and ground mixture.
- Cook on low flame for a minute or till the tomatoes are cooked completely.
- Check the salt and add if required...according to taste.
- Serve hot with steamed rice
