30 October, 2018

COW PEA/BLACK EYED BEANS/LOBIA/ALASANDE KALU KOOTU

When you don’t feel like using vegetables or when there is no much choice of vegetables at home or when you are bored of eating mixed vegetables kootu…… then here is the chance & choice of making this healthy, yummy, spicy legume based Kootu using Cow peas/black eyed beans/lobia/alasande kalu (as called in Kannada).

Make it little more spicier than regular huli (sambar) and enjoy this with hot steaming rice…. it will be heavenly. If you have microwave roasted Papad, then it is definitely something like cherry on the cake !!

Please have a look at some other recipes using cow peas on my blog – Lobia/cow peas Pooran Poli/ holige , lentils & Pulses masala dosay

Ingredients : measuring cup – 200 ml

Alasande kalu/black eyed beans – 3/4 cup
Water – 4 cups
Groundnut – 1/4 cup
Toor dal/togari bele – 1/4 cup
Tamarind juice (thick) – 2 tbsp (adjust)
salt to taste (3/4 tbsp)

To dry roast & grind :

Coriander seeds – 1 tbsp
Split black gram/urad dal – 1 tbsp
Black pepper corns – 1/4 tbsp
Cinnamon stick/dalchini – 3/4 inch piece
Red chilies – 5 nos., for color + 3 nos., for hotness (adjust)
Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves – 2 strings
Grated fresh coconut – 1/4 cup (tightly packed)
Hing – 1/8 tsp

For tempering :

Ghee – 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves – 1 or 2 strings

PROCEDURE :

Boil 2&1/2 cups of water in a pressure cooker, add in black eyed beans/lobia/alasande kalu, ground nut and toor dal/togaribele, when everything rolling boil, close the lid and give it 2 or 3 whistle
Mean while dry roast all the ingredients listed below the heading ‘to dry roast and grind’, allow it to cool and grind into a fine using 1/2 cup of water

Once the pressure settles down, open the lid and bring it again to boil, put the ground paste, salt, tamarind juice and remaining 1 cup of water into the cooked dal-lobia mixture, keep stirring almost continuously till it boils well