Perimma's Kootanchoru / Rice and Dal cooked with Vegetables and Drumstick leaves -Traditional Rice Recipes / Perimma's Recipe

This is a traditional recipe from my perimma..She made this last month and brought this to my home. I tasted it and totally loved it..I asked her the recipe, she gave me without any hesitation..Hope you like it and let me know what you think..

Perimma's Kootanchoru  Recipe

Ingrediants:

Rice - 2 cup

Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu - 1 cup

Murungai keerai / Drumstick Leaves  - 2 cup

Country Vegetables - 2 cups ( I used carrot, potato, cucumber, raw banana, pumpkin)

Sambar Onion / Shallots- 5

Tomato -1  chopped

Turmeric Powder /Majal podi - 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Tamarind paste - 2 tblspn

Ghee - 1 tblspn

To Grind:

Coconut - 1 cup

Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp

Green Chilli - 4

To temper:

Oil- 2 tblspn

Channa dal - 1 tblspn

Urad dal - 1 tblspn

Curry leaves - 1 spring

Dry Red Chilli - 2

Asafoetida / Hing / kaya Podi - 1/4 tsp

Method:

Grind the ingrediants given in the list. Set this aside.

Take onions, tomatoes and all the vegetables in a pressure cooker. Add salt and turmeric powder and cook for 2 whistles. Let the pressure go all by itself and set aside.

Wash rice and dal together and soak for 30 mins. Take it in pressure cooker add 7 cups of water and cook for 4 whistles.. Let the pressure go all by itself and set aside.

Open the rice and add the vegetables mixture to this and mix well. Add the ground coconut paste and mix well.

Add tamarind and mix well. Adjust salt and mix well. Simmer it for 10 min. Add water accordingly..The mixture should be slightly  runny, because it get thick as it stays..

Now take ghee in a pan and saute the murungai keerai leaves for 3 mins. Add this to the rice mixture and simmer again for 5 mins.

Now temper the ingrediants given in the list and pour it over the rice..Mix well.

Serve hot..

Amma's Cucumber Pulikari / Velarikai Thengai Kulambu / Cucumber Cooked in Coconut Sauce

This is a gravy which hardly takes any time to cook..So amma makes it more often than anything else. You can use any vegetable of your choice. You could add ladysfinger, pumpkin, shallots or drumstick, brinjal and make this..Hope you like it..

Amma's Cucumber Pulikari 

Ingrediants:

Cucumber -1 cup deseeded and chopped

Salt to taste

Water to cook cucumber

For Grinding:

Coconut – ½ cup

Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi -1 tsp

Shallots / Sambar Onion – 3 peeled

Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1tsp

Dry Red Chilli - 2

For Tempering:

Oil- 2 tblspn

Mustard Seeds / Kaduku – 1tsp

Urad Dal / Ulundu -1 tsp

Shallots / Sambar Onion – 3 chopped finely

Curry leaves – 1 spring

Method:

Grind all the ingrediants given in the list to a fine paste by adding some water.

Take cucumber in a kadai and add salt and water. Cover and cook for 10 mins untill cooked.

Now add in the ground masala paste along with some water to make the gravy.

Bring it just a single boil. Don’t let it boil over. Switch off the flame.

Make tempering by adding all the ingrediants to oil and pour this over the gravy.

Mix well and serve with rice.