BANANA STEM KOOTU

BANANA STEM KUTOO

Ingredients:
2 cups of chopped banana stem
½ cup toor dal
1 small tomato chopped
2 slit green chillies
Little tumeric powder
Salt as needed

To Grind:
3 tsp scrapped coconut
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 green chillie

To Season:
1 tsp oil
½ tsp mustard seeds
½ tsp urad dal
1 dry red chillie broken
1 sprig curry leaves.

Method:
Take watery butter milk in a container.
Apply oil to your palms.
Cut the banana stem in round slices.
Remove gently the fibre sticking to the slices.
Then cut it into small pieces and immediately put them
in the butter milk.

In a pressure cooker add the dal, tumeric powder, tomato and the 2 green chillies, cook for 1 whistle.
After the pressure subsides, remove the lid, add in the squeezed
banana stem pieces. Let it cook on a medium flame so that most of
the water evaporates.

Now add in the ground paste and salt to the dal mixture.
Cook on low heat till the kutoo is dry as required.
In a separate pan add the oil and add the seasoning ingredients.
When the mustard splutters remove from heat and add the seasonings
To the banana stem mixture. Stir nicely.
Remove and serve with rice.