Mulai Keerai Mor Kootu

Healthy and tasty MOR KOOTU

INGREDIENTS:

1. Mulai Keerai: 1 kattu/ bunch [ cut the root alone and finely chop both the leaves and stem]
2. Salt: as req
3. Turmeric Powder: 1/4 tspn
4. Hing/ Perungayam/ Asafoetida: 1/2 tspn
5. Tomatoes: 2 nos. cubed
6. Coconut oil: 2 tspn[to garnish at last]

TO GRIND:

1. Soaked toor daal/thuvaram paruppu: 3 tspn
2. Jeeragam/ Cumin seeds: 2 tspn
3. Red chilly: 1 no.
4. Coconut: 1 half [oru moodi] grated.
5. Water: as req for the paste.

TEMPERING IS NOT NEEDED FOR ANY MOR-KOOTU VARIETIES AND AVIAL

METHOD:

1. Wash thoroughly until the mud goes off from keerai.
2. In a pan/kadai, put the washed keerai add sufficient water until keerai gets soaked.
3. Add turmeric powder, salt, tomatoes, hing/asafoetida and mix well along with keerai and water.
4. Let this mixture cook for 10 mins in medium flame. [once this is cooked, using a spatula/masher, mash the contents slightly to gel each other]
5. Meanwhile, add all the ingredients mentioned in "to grind" to a mixie and grind as a semi-smooth paste [not fully coarse].
6. Add this paste to already cooking keerai and let it give 1 boil and turn off.
7. On top of the prepared keerai mor kootu, add 2 tspns of edible coconut oil and mix well [add only after turning off the flame].
8. Keerai Mor-Kootu is ready to serve.
9. You can have it as a side dish for any rice, chapathis etc.. You can mix this with plain white rice and consume it for a complete lunch. Very Very Healthy. Try it pals!!