Healthy Food Recipes - Avarakottai Kuzhambu!
Posted on: 17/Jan/2015 12:19:54 PM
Ingredients:
- Avarakottai (Field Beans) – 1 cup
- Onion – 2 nos
- Tomato – 2 nos
- Parangikai (Yellow Pumpkin) – 1 cup (chopped) - Optional
- Brinjal – 1 cup (chopped) - Optional
- Carrot – 1 cup (chopped) - Optional
- Beans – 1 cup (chopped)- Optional
- Potato – 1 cup (Chopped)- Optional
- Avaraikai (Broad Beans) – 1 cup (Chopped) – Optional
- Garlic – 5 nos
- Tamarind – a small lemon size
- Turmeric Powder - ¼ spoon
- Sambar Powder – 1 ½ spoon
- Salt – As required
- Curry leaves – a few
- Coriander Leaves – a few
- Cooking oil – 5 spoon
- Mustard seeds – ½ spoon
- Cumin Seeds – ½ spoon
Method:
- Heat the pan and roast the Avarakottai (Field Beans) slightly and soak it overnight before the day of preparation.
- Cut all the mentioned vegetables into small even sized pieces and keep aside.
- Pressure cook the soaked Avarakottai for about 4 to 5 whistles. As we roast it and soak it in water overnight, it will get boil very well.
- Heat the pan with 4 spoons of oil and add curry leaves, crushed garlic and chopped onion. Sauté it well till the colour of the onion turns golden brown. Then add chopped tomato and sauté it till the tomato shrinks and the raw smell leaves.
- Now add the chopped vegetables one by one, and stir well for about 3 to 5 minutes.
- Then add the required quantity of water and add turmeric powder, sambar powder and salt and pressure cook for about 1 whistle.
- Once the pressure leaves, open the lid and add the boiled Avarakottai and mix well.
- You can use the Avarakottai boiled water to prepare soup or you can add it to the preparation of the kuzambhu itself.
- Allow the dish to boil for some time and add the tamarind extract and keep the stove in high flame.
- Now heat the pan with a spoon of oil and add mustard seeds, cumin seeds for tempering and add it on top of the dish.
- Sprinkle the chopped coriander leaves for garnishing and serve hot!
- The hot Avarakottai Kuzambhu will go fine with Rice!
Note:
- Usually, people used to prepare the Avarakottai kuzambhu by adding brinjal along with Avarakottai beans. But adding yellow pumpkin has been used here so as to thicken the dish.
- Since we are adding additional vegetables like carrot, beans, the dish will be very colourful and healthy too!
- In the same way we can use Mochai kotai in place of Avarakottai and prepare mochai kuzambhu.
- After soaking the Avarakottai overnight, drain it well and pressure cook it using fresh h water, since the old water will have medicinal smell.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
