Collard Greens Kootu recipe
 
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Serves: 4
Ingredients
Base inredients:
  • Collard greens Leaves – 1 bunch (10 to 12 leaves)
  • Onion – 1
  • Tomato – 1
To pressure cook:
  • Toor dal – ½ cup
  • Turmeric powder – a generous pinch
  • Asafoetida – a generous pinch
  • Garlic cloves - 2 to 3
Spices:
  • Sambar Powder – 1 tsp to 2 tsp
  • Salt – ½ tsp or as required
To grind
  • Coconuts – 5 lengthwise pieces or 2 tbsp grated
  • Cumin seeds/Jeera- ½ tsp
  • Dry red chillies- 1 or 2(Optional)
To Temper
  • Coconut oil – 1 tbsp
  • Mustard Seeds/Kadugu- ¼ tsp
  • Urad dal - ½ tsp
Instructions
  1. Refer below pics to see how to wash and chop Collard greens.
  2. Wash toor dal twice and transfer washed dal to cooker. Add chopped garlic cloves, turmeric powder, asafoetida and a cup of water to dal.
  3. Pressure cook in medium-high flame for 4-6 whistles or until cooked well.
  4. Add a tbsp of coconut oil and once hot, add mustard seeds.
  5. Once spluttered, urad dal. Once it starts to change color, add chopped onions and fry well.
  6. Once translucent, add chopped tomato and fry till mushy.
  7. Once mushy, add sambar powder and fry for few seconds in low flame.
  8. Add washed and chopped collard greens and fry for a minute in medium flame.
  9. Then add ½ cup of water and allow it to cook in open pot for 10 mins in medium flame. Stir intermittently.
  10. Grind coconut pieces and jeera with lil water. If you want spicy version, add 1 or 2 dry red chillies while grinding coconut. This will elevate the spice & taste.
  11. Once greens are 90% cooked, add cooked & mashed dal and ground coconut paste along with salt. Rinse mixie jar with ¼ cup water and add.
  12. Mix well and cook for 8 to 10 minutes.
  13. Transfer to serving bowl. Dal will thicken over time.
Notes
1.Toor dal can be substituted with split ¼ cup yellow moong dal(paasiparuppu) and ¼ cup chanadal(kadalaiparuppu).
2.You can cook dal for extra whistle to make it mushy. You shall mash it with mathu or potato masher.
3.You shall substitute big onion with a handful of Pearl onions for elevated taste.
4.Tempering with coconut oil, gives a nice flavor. You shall substitute with ordinary cooking oil too.
5.You shall replace sambar powder with your gravy powder. Or just add 1sp dhaniya powder + 1tsp plain chilli powder+1 pinch Jeera powder +1 pinch pepper powder. Add more chilli powder for spicy version.
Recipe by My Healthy Kiddo at https://www.myhealthykiddo.com/collard-greens-kootu-recipe/