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

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, chow-chow kootu / chayote lentil stew. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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. Kootu is a lentil and vegetable stew in South Indian, particularly Tamil and Kerala cuisines. Chow Chow kootu is made with Chayote squash and yellow moong dal.

Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chow-chow kootu / chayote lentil stew using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

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

Chayote squash is also called Chow Chow or Bangalore kathrikai in Tamil, Seeme badnekai/Bangalore brinjal in Kannada, Seema vankaya in Telugu, Sheema katharikai in Malayalam. Chayote kootu is easy to prepare. For quite some time now we have been using chayote or chow chow as it is known here in India for almost everyday cooking in different ways. One of the most preferred form is in the gravy , or kootu which is used to mix rice with and have with some crispies or also as a side dish for chapatis.

Instructions 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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For quite some time now we have been using chayote or chow chow as it is known here in India for almost everyday cooking in different ways. One of the most preferred form is in the gravy , or kootu which is used to mix rice with and have with some crispies or also as a side dish for chapatis. Stewed chayote squash Chow Chow Kootu is a stewed chayote squash made with lentils. It is an exquisite recipe prepared in Bhramin style (no onion & no garlic). Thanks to my sister Bhavya taught me this recipe.

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