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 make a special dish, chow-chow kootu / chayote lentil stew. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Chow Chow Kootu - Indian Chayote & Lentil Stew. Chow Chow or the Indian Chayote is also known as Bangalore Brinjal, Cho Cho etc. Its a kind of squash and you cook it like you would a pumpkin.

Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must 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 it.

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

Chow Chow Milagu Kootu Recipe is a mildly spiced kootu recipe. Peppercorn, cumin seeds, coconut paste added to the kootu makes it oh so flavourful. Chow Chow Milagu Kootu Recipe is a mildly spiced kootu recipe, usually had along with rasam and steamed rice in southern India. Cook chayote in water adding sambar powder, turmeric powder and salt needed until soft.

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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Pressure cook tur dal until soft. (only if you use tur dal alone, otherwise you can add it along with the chow chow and cook chow chow. Chayote (Chow Chow) is an edible plant and like bitter gourd, ridge gourd, this also belongs to gourd family. Chow Chow is is low in Saturated Fat,and a We can also mix the stew with hot steaming rice and feed the kids. It is a very healthy and tasty stew and you should try this Chow Chow kootu and. Todays post is a simple chow chow kootu recipe.

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