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 dum dal and papaya together in cooker and make it in a jiffy.

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:

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 & 1/2 cups.
Skip onion if you do not like. But it lends a nice aroma.

Tags: green papaya, raw papaya, papaya kootu

How to make papaya kootu, step by step pictures:

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.