Mixed Vegetable kootu

I had to finish up cleaning my refrigerator, so I gathered all the vegetables left in small quantities and made this tasty kootu.

INgredients

Leftovers of :

Beans
Butternut squash
Zucchini Squash
Carrots

Cocounut powder - 1/4 cup
Red Chillies - 3
Coconut Milk - 1/4 cup
Cumin seeds - 1 Tbspn
Salt
Oil
Mustard seeds


1. In a pan or the pressure cooker, put all the vegetables and cover with little water and cook till the vegetables are tender.
2. Grind the coconut powder, red chillies and cumin seeds to a coarse paste.
3. Once the vegetables are cooked, add the ground paste, salt and boil for a minute.
4. Finally , reduce the flame to low and add coconut milk and mix well and boil for another minute.
5. In a sepate pan, add some oil, mustard seeds and curry leaves. When the mustard seeds splutter, add it all to the vegetables and enjoy.

I had about 1 1/2 cups of leftover veggies, so I used these proportions. You can modify to taste as you desire.

Bean and vegetables kootu

I found this beans& vegetables mix at the bulk section in whole foods. It has a mix of green and white lentils, kidney beans, white beans , dried carrots and beans. Looked like a healthy option, so here's the recipe.

Ingredients

1. 1 cup of the 32 beans & veggie mix
   
2. Dry coconut powder - 3/4 spoons
   
3. Red chillies 1/2 pieces
   

Method

1. Soak the grains in hot water for half an hour. If you don't have time to soak, just wait for more than 7 whistles on your pressure cooker, otherwise cook as you would normally cook dhal.
   
2. In a pan take oil, add mustard seeds, urad and bengal gram dhal.
   
3. After the seeds splutter, add the red chillies and coconut and fry for about a minute
   
4. Add the cooked beans, some turmeric powder and salt to taste. These beans do tend to get very thick after cooking so add water as well.
   

P.S: Other ingredients to experiment with - Dry ginger powder, a spoon of tamarind paste, some peanuts or peanut powder..