Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew
Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chow-chow kootu / chayote lentil stew. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

Even the most obsessive gourmand would love to keep a few humble dishes in their repertoire and this chow chow kootu is one of them. The humble Indian Chayote Squash is cooked with yellow lentils in a pressure cooker until soft and then flavored with coconut, chilies, peppers, and so on. Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew Chow-Chow or Chayote or in kannada it is called as "Seemey Badhneykaai". It is a type of gourd, that can be used in v. more Anushaa Ashok Chennai,TN Chow Chow Kootu with Moong Dal - Chayote Squash Lentil Stew.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chow-chow kootu / chayote lentil stew using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew:
  1. Prepare 2 Chayote
  2. Make ready 1 cup moong dal
  3. Prepare 300 ml water
  4. Prepare 1 tbsp ghee
  5. Take 1 tsp mustard seeds
  6. Get 5 curry leaves
  7. Make ready to taste salt
  8. Get 1 handful coconut scrapings
  9. Prepare 1 tbsp cumin jeera /
  10. Prepare 7 chillies dry red

Wash, peel and chop the chow chow/Bangalore kathrikkai/Chayote into small cubes. In a small pressure cooker, add the kadala paruppu at the bottom add water to the level that it just covers the kadala paruppu. Add the chow chow pieces over the paruppu and also add turmeric powder. Add the chopped chayote, washed moong dal, sambar powder, coriander powder, salt and saute for a minute.

Steps to make Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew:
  1. Cook 1 cup of moong dal(add water until the moong dal submerges or about 200 ml)  in pressure cooker up to 4 whistles or cook it in microwave for 15 minutes in high power.
  2. Peel and chop the chow-chow or chayote into small cubes and put it ina vessel. Add enough water and cook this on medium heat. Sprinkle little salt for the chow-chow to cook faster.
  3. Take the ingredients mentioned under "For the paste" in a blender jar, add little water(about 6 tbsps) and grind this to smooth paste. It should look like a chutney.
  4. Now check if the chow-chow- or chayote is cooked by inserting a knife, if it goes in easily then it is cooked. Now add the cooked moong dal and the ground paste to this and mix. Let it boil for about 6 minutes. Keep stirring do not leave this boiling continuously on medium heat. At this stage it will easily stick to the bottom of the vessel and burn, Keep stirring in equal intervals.
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  6. Take the kootu off the heat and take a tadka pan, on medium heat, crackle 1 tsp of mustard seeds and curry leaves in a tablespoon of ghee. Add this to the kootu and mix.
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Add the chow chow pieces over the paruppu and also add turmeric powder. Add the chopped chayote, washed moong dal, sambar powder, coriander powder, salt and saute for a minute. Add water to it making sure the dal and chayote are immersed in water. Coarsely crush the cumin and black pepper in a mortar and pestle. Take a small pan/tadka pan and add oil/ghee.

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