Keerai Kootu Recipe

Healthy keerai kootu made using spinach and dal. This keerai kootu can be served with rice and some ghee.

 

 

Keerai Kootu Recipe

Vallarai Keerai or Brahmi leaves which it is called in english is really healthy for us and increases memory power, so good for kids. I have three recipes of that keerai in this blog, check out my vallarai keerai sambar, vallarai keerai thogayal. This is another simple recipe which can be prepared using that keerai.

About this Recipe

I made this kootu so many days before and served it with paruppu rasam and vazhakkai chukka fry. It was truly yummy, vallarai keerai has a little bitterness, so i added a tiny bit of sugar to balance it and it really worked. 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.

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How to Make Keerai Kootu

• Take all grinding ingredients in a blender, add some water and make it into smooth puree.
• Take dal, spinach, tomatoes, garlic, turmeric powder and water in a pressure cooker. Cook it for 2 whistle, simmer the flame for 10 mins. Turn the heat off and let the steam go all by itself.
• Now open the cooker and put it back on stove. Add salt, sugar and ground masala. Mix well. Adjust the consistency with some water.Let this simmer for 5 mins..
• Now make seasoning by heating oil and frying all seasoning ingredients in it. Pour this over the kootu and mix well.
• Serve with rice.

 

 

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Vallarai Keerai Kootu Recipe | Brahmi Leaves Kootu Recipe

Healthy keerai kootu made using vallarai keerai or brahmi leaves. This healthy vallarai keerai kootu can be served with rice and some ghee.

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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes minutes

Servings: 6 servings

Ingredients

• ▢ Vallarai Keerai / Brahmi leaves- 2 cup chopped finely
• ▢ Yellow Split Moong Dal / Pasi paruppu - ½ cup
• ▢ Tomatoes - 1 large chopped
• ▢ Garlic - 2 fat cloves
• ▢ Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi - 1 tsp
• ▢ Salt to taste
• ▢ Sugar - ½ tsp
• ▢ For Grinding:
• ▢ Fresh Coconut - ½ cup Grated
• ▢ Dry Red Chilli - 2
• ▢ Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
• ▢ Rice Flour / Arisi Mavu - 1 tblspn
• ▢ For Seasoning:
• ▢ Oil - 1 tsp
• ▢ Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
• ▢ Cumin Seeds/ Jeerakam - ½ tsp
• ▢ Urad dal / Ulundu paruppu - 1 tsp
• ▢ Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya podi - ¼ tsp
• ▢ Curry Leaves a sprig

Instructions

• ▢
  Take all grinding ingredients in a blender, add some water and make it into smooth puree.
• ▢
  Take dal, spinach, tomatoes, garlic, turmeric powder and water in a pressure cooker. Cook it for 2 whistle, simmer the flame for 10 mins. Turn the heat off and let the steam go all by itself.
• ▢
  Now open the cooker and put it back on stove. Add salt, sugar and ground masala. Mix well. Adjust the consistency with some water.Let this simmer for 5 mins..
• ▢
  Now make seasoning by heating oil and frying all seasoning ingredients in it. Pour this over the kootu and mix well.
• ▢
  Serve with rice.

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Version 1: Vallarai Keerai Kootu Step by Step

 

Take all your ingredients

 

Take coconut, cumin seeds and dry red chilli in a blender

 

add a spoonful of rice flour

make it into a smooth puree

take moong dal in a cooker

add in chopped vallarai keerai

add in cubed tomatoes

couple of garlic cloves

little turmeric powder

add water and cook it

now everything is cooked

put it back on stove

add some salt

ground masala

a little sugar

bring it to boil

mix well and cook for few mins

now heat some oil

add seasoning ingredients

pour that over the kootu

mix well

 

serve

 

Version 2: Red Spinach Kootu | Amaranth Leaves Kootu 

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.

• Red Spinach leaves / Amaranth - 3 cup chopped finely
• Yellow Split Moong Dal / Pasi paruppu - ½ cup
• Salt to taste

• Fresh Coconut - ½ cup Grated
• Dry Red Chilli - 2
• Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp

• Ghee - 1 tblspn
• Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
• Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu - 1 tsp

1. Take all grinding ingredients in a blender, add make it into a coarse mixture.
2. Take dal, spinach and water in a sauce pan and cook till dal is done. Add salt and mix well.
3. Add in ground masala. Mix well. Adjust the consistency with some water.Let this simmer for 5 mins..
4. Now make seasoning by heating ghee and frying all seasoning ingredients in it. Pour this over the kootu and mix well.
5. Serve with rice.

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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