Keerai Kootu Recipe - Red Spinach Kootu Recipe - Red Amaranth Leaves Kootu Recipe

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I made this kootu so many days before and served it with paruppu rasam and vazhakkai chukka fry. It was truly yummy. You can check out my other kootu recipes and spinach recipes too..

Hope you will love this and let me know if you try this.

Preparation Time : 10 mins

Cooking Time : 25 to 30 mins

Serves : 4 to 5

Ingredients:

Red Spinach leaves / Amaranth – 3 cup chopped finely

Yellow Split Moong Dal / Pasi paruppu – 1/2 cup

Salt to taste

For Grinding:

Fresh Coconut – 1/2 cup Grated

Dry Red Chilli – 2

Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 tsp

For Seasoning:

Ghee – 1 tblspn

Mustard Seeds / Kaduku – 1 tsp

Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu – 1 tsp

Method:

Take all grinding ingredients in a blender, add make it into a coarse mixture.

Take dal, spinach and water in a sauce pan and cook till dal is done.

Add salt and mix well.

Add in ground masala. Mix well. Adjust the consistency with some water.Let this simmer for 5 mins..

Now make seasoning by heating ghee and frying all seasoning ingredients in it. Pour this over the kootu and mix well.

Serve with rice.

Pictorial:

Take coconut, cumin and dry chillies in a blender

puree till it is little coarse

now take moong dal in a sauce pan

add chopped red spinach

add water

cooked till done

add coconut mix

add salt

mix well and simmer for few mins

heat ghee and crackle mustard and urad dal

pour it in

mix well

Serve

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