Mor koottan

Ingredients

Butter milk one cup
coconut two table spoon
four green chillies
any one of these veggies
either vendakkai
or white pumpkin - elavan
or cheppan kizhangu
1 tea spoon turmeric powder
1 tea spoon pepper powder

for seasoning

mustard and
menthiam
in a teaspoon oil
Plus karugappilai

Method

First cut the veggies and
put a kadai and
after doing the seasoning
add the butter milk
and ground coconut
Add karugappilai

Cook the veggies separately
and add to the koottan

If you are making with vendakkai
fry the cut vendakkai in oil and
add it to the koottan

It should not be boiled
You should take it from the stove before that

Variations

There is another kind also
you can use a table spoon gram flour
instead of coconut
Add the pepper and jeera powder for flavouring

There is a third method also
for that you can fry
some gram dhall and dania
with two red chillies
and two green chillies
and one spoon coconut
and mix it with butter milk
and after adding the cooked veggies
and karugappilai
this will be ready to serve

This is the recipe of my mother
and she used to make
lots and lots of good food
and side dishes
when we were children
and living in palakkad