Ingredients

• 2 cups - Toor Dal
• 20 - Green beans
• 3 - Carrot
• 2 - Potato
• 1 - Kohlrabi
• 1 cup - Green peas and Lima beans
• 1/2 tsp - Tamarind paste
• Salt
• For Masala:
• 4 tsps - Urad Dal
• 1 tsp - Channa Dal
• 3 tsp - Dhania
• 1.5 tsps - Pepper corns
• 1 tsp - Jeera
• 3 - Red chillies
• 2 inch - Cinnamon
• 4 - Cloves
• For seasoning:
• 1/2 cup - peanuts and cashews
• 1/2 tsp - mustard
• Hing
• Curry leaves

How to Make Vegetable Kootu

• Fry all the ingredients for the masala with 1/4 tsp oil until it's golden brown.
• Then put all the above with 1/2 cup coconut in a mixer and grind it to smooth paste, adding little water.
• Cut beans into 2 pieces. Dice other vegetables into medium cubes.
• Boil them in a vessel separately until they are tender.
• Cook tuvar dal with 3 cups of water in a pressure cooker until 2 whistles.
• Drain vegetables. Mix dal and vegetables in a big vessel.
• Add ground masala, salt and tamarind paste.
• Add water to required consistency and bring to boil.
• Before taking it off the stove, add seasoning.
• Serve with rice or chapattis.