papaya kootu recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian |  Recipe Category: Side dish
Prep Time: 15 mins |  Cook time: 15 mins |  Serves: 4  | Author: Raks anand

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Raw papaya can be made as kootu and served as accompaniment in south Indian meals. A simple and delicious kootu, pleasant to eyes as well as tastes great.

Ingredients

Papaya, unripe – 1/2
Moong dal – 1/2 cup
Turmeric – 1/8 tsp
Salt – as needed
To grind
Coconut, scraped – 1/2 cup
Green chilli – 2
Rice flour – 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp
Small onion/ shallots – 2
To temper
Coconut oil – 2 tsp
Mustard – 1/2 tsp
Urad dal – 1 tsp
Curry leaves – 1 sprig

Method:

1. Peel the papaya’s skin well without any green hue. Slice into strips and then chop into cubes.
2. In a small pressure cooker, add moong dal, top with the chopped papaya, salt, turmeric and water just to immerse the vegetable.
3. Pressure cook for 3 whistles.
4. Meanwhile grind coconut, green chilli and rice flour with very little water. Add cumin and peeled shallots, give it a run.
5. Add the ground coconut mixture to the kootu and boil for 2 mins.
6. Heat a kadai, add oil, splutter mustard, followed by urad dal, curry leaves. Pour it to the kootu and stir well. 

Notes

• Makes sure not to overcook the vegetable. You can cook dal, vegetable separately also and make kootu.
• My chopped papaya came around roughly 2 & 1/2 cups.
• Skip onion if you do not like. But it lends a nice aroma.

Tags: green papaya, raw papaya, papaya kootu