Cabbage Kootu | Mutaikose kootu | Chittinadu style


How to make Cabbage Kootu | Mutaikose kootu | Chittinadu style


When you are boring with cabbage Poriyal, you can try this kootu. Its very simple and delicious. We can have with both rice and chappathi.

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time:15 minutes
Total times:30 minutes
Serving: 4
Course: Sidedish
Cuisine:south Indian recipe

Ingredients:
1 Cup Cabbage, Finely chopped
1 small Onion, Finely chopped
50 gram Moong dal
1 tblsp Chilli Powder
½ tblsp Sambar Powder
½ tsp Turmeric Powder
1 Pinch Hing(Perungayam)
Salt to taste

To Grinding
½ cup grated coconut
1 tsp Cumin seeds
6 Garlic, peeled

To Tempering
1 tsp Mustard seeds
2 dry chilly
1 sprig Curry leaves
Oil for Cooking

For Garnishing:

Coriander leaves, Chopped

Preparation:

Transfer the grated coconut, cumin seeds, garlic to the mix jar. Grind it and keep aside.

Method:

1.       In a Pressure cooker, add Cabbage, Onion, Moong dal, Chilli Powder, Sambar   Powder, Salt and required water. Cover the pressure cooker for 6 whistle on medium   flame.
2.      Once the pressure cooker settle down, open the cooker and do the mix
3.      Add coconut paste to the kootu, mix well. Let it boil for a minute
4.      Add turmeric and hing. Let it cook till the Coconut paste raw smell disappear
5.      Further more, sprinkle coriander leaves
6.      Mean while, heat a pan add 2 tsp oil and add mustard seeds
7.      When mustard seeds crackle, add dry chilly and curry leaves
8.     Pour the tempering over the mutaikose kootu and mix well
9.      Serve the mutaikose kottu with rice or chappathi


Step by step pictorial

Ingredients:

In a Pressure cooker, add Cabbage, Onion, Moong dal, Chilli Powder, Sambar Powder, Salt and required water. Cover the pressure cooker for 6 whistle on medium flame.
Once the pressure cooker settle down, open the cooker and do the mix
Add coconut paste to the kootu, mix well. Let it boil for a minute
Add turmeric and hing. Let it cook till the Coconut paste raw smell disappear
Further more, sprinkle coriander leaves
Mean while, heat a pan add 2 tsp oil and add mustard seeds
When mustard seeds crackle, add dry chilly and curry leaves
Pour the tempering over the mutaikose kootu and mix well

Serve the mutaikose kottu with rice or chappathi

Notes:

You can add channa or toor dal instead of moong dal. Or else you will be using toor dal+Moong dal combination.
You can increase or decrease chilli power as per your taste.

Combination:
Chappathi + Muttaikose Kootu
Rice + Rasam + Muttaikose Kootu
Rice + Vathal Kulambu or puli kulambu + Cabbage kootu






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