Vegetable Kootu

Kootu
Ingriedients:
   1. Udad dal -1 tbsp
   2. Channa dal - 3/4th table spoon
   3. Dhania seeds - 1 1/2 table spoon
   4. Badgi red chillies-10nos
   5. Black pepper - 1tsp
   6. Cinnamon stick - 1inch
   7. Khus khus - 1tsp
   8. Dry coconut or fresh coconut - 1/4th of the whole.

   1. Oil- 2tsp
   2. Rai-1tsp
   3. Hing- A pinch
   4. Curry leaves- 7-8

    * Vegetables which suits kootu: Beans, Carrot, Potato, Green peas, Cabbage, Chapparadha avarekai (indian field beans)
    * Any of the above with potatoes or all.
    * You can also make Kootu with Palak, Dantina soppu or Padavalakai(Snake Gourd) but only with the single vegetable.

And lastly.....
   1. Tur Dal- 2 cups
   2. Salt to taste

Method:
   1. Cut the vegetables to a bite size pieces. Cook the vegetables and the Tur dal in a pressure cooker till.
   2. Roast each ingredient separately(SET-1), mix all and grind it, If you are using fresh coconut then powder rest of the masala separately and then grind coconut with little(how much you require at that time) of the masala with little water and keep it aside.
   3. Now remove the vegetable and dal from the cooker.
   4. Make a smooth paste of the dal.
   5. Boil the dal and the vegetables together. Add the ground paste to this.
   6. Take a small kadhai. Add little oil. Then add 2,3,4 from SET-2 in that order.
   7. Add this vogarane to the Kootu.
   8. Serve Hot