KOOTTU CURRY

Ingredients

1. Chick peas black / karutha kadala - 1 cup soaked over night 
2. Yam/ chena - 250gms diced
3. Nenthra kaya raw  - 1 diced
4. Turmeric powder-1tsp
5. Red chilly powder - 2 tbsp
6. Shredded Coconut -1 cup
7. Jeera - 1tsp
8. Mustard - 2 tsp
9. Urad dal - 2 tsp
10. Curry Leaves - a few
11. Salt as needed
12. Jaggery - 3 tbsp
13. Coconut oil - 3 tsp
14. Ghee - 2 tsp

Method

1. Grind the shredded coconut and jeera with little water to fine paste and keep aside.
2. Cook the soaked black channa in a cooker for 3 whistles in high flame &1 whistle in low flame and keep aside.
3. Peel the yam & raw banana and cut to diced cubes. Then cook in 1 cup water adding turmeric & chilly powders and salt, until soft.
4. When 95% water is evoparated, add ground coconut paste and cook for few mins until the raw taste of the  paste is gone. Then add jaggery and mix well. 
5. Add cooked kadala to the above veg mixture, mix well, cook for few more mins until all the water evoparates.
6. Heat a pan, add coconut oil, when it becomes hot add mustard seeds, broken dry chilly,curry leaves urad dal, let it roast, then add shredded coconut and rost till golden brown .
7. Add the above sesoning to the koottu curry, sprinkle 2 tsp ghee on the top and cover it and let keep aside for 1 hr before serving.
8. Serve as side dish for Sadhya.