Green papaya kootu - 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.

After preparing pappali kai poriyal, I had half of the vegetable leftover. I wanted to try kootu with it. I prepared as the same way I make most of the other vegetables kootu. It turned out to be awesome. I loved the colour too. It is very simple to prepare, you can dump dal and papaya together in cooker and make it in a jiffy.

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Green papaya kootu - papali kai kootu

Green papaya kootu - 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.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Indian

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 15

Servings 4

Cup measurements

Ingredients

½ Papaya unripe
½ cup Moong dal
⅛ teaspoon Turmeric
Salt

To grind

½ cup Coconut scraped
2 Green chilli
½ teaspoon Rice flour
½ teaspoon Cumin seeds
2 Small onion/ shallots

To temper

2 teaspoon Coconut oil
½ teaspoon Mustard
1 teaspoon Urad dal
1 Curry leaves sprig

Instructions

Peel the papaya's skin well without any green hue. Slice into strips and then chop into cubes.
In a small pressure cooker, add moong dal, top with the chopped papaya, salt, turmeric and water just to immerse the vegetable.
Pressure cook for 3 whistles.Meanwhile grind coconut, green chilli and rice flour with very little water. Add cumin and peeled shallots, give it a run.
Add the ground coconut mixture to the kootu and boil for 2 mins.
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 & ½ cups.
Skip onion if you do not like. But it lends a nice aroma.

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How to make green papaya kootu:

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