Palak Koottu

Simple and tasty recipe, this is one of the best Koottu you could ever have with less ingredients.

Ingredients

1/2 cup dry moong daal which is cooked using pressure cooker

One whole bunch of spinach washed and chopped

2 green chillies slit

water for cooking spinach

salt to taste

For roasting and grinding

1 tsp cooking oil

2 whole red chillies

1/2 tsp urad dal

1/2 tsp chana daal

1/3 tsp mustard seeds

3 tbsp coconut flakes

1 tomato chopped

1/2 tsp cumin seeds

Seasoning

Curry leaves,

urad dal

mustard seeds

one whole red chilly

Method

1) Pressure cook moong daal until it gets cooked completely.

2) Boil water. Wash and cut spinach and once done, add it to the boiling water and cook with the lid open. Once done drain away excess water.

3) In another pan, add some oil. Add all the ingredients except tomatoes and coconut. Once they start browning a bit, add chopped tomatoes. Once it fries well, add coconut and fry it till coconut flakes turn slightly brown. Switch off the flame and keep it aside to cool down.

4) Once the ingredients cool down, grind them in a mixie using a little bit of water.

5)  Add cooked  daal in the pan that has cooked spinach in it. Add the ground mixture to the pan. Add some salt to taste and cool well until the gravy starts boiling.

6) For seasoning, add some curry leaves. In a small pan, add urad dal, mustard seeds, whole red chilly and add them to the daal.

Serve hot with rice.