Simple Way to Make Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew

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Steps to Make Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chow-chow kootu / chayote lentil stew using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew:

1. Make ready 2 Chayote
2. Make ready 1 cup moong dal
3. Make ready 300 ml water
4. Get 1 tbsp ghee
5. Make ready 1 tsp mustard seeds
6. Prepare 5 curry leaves
7. Take to taste salt
8. Make ready 1 handful coconut scrapings
9. Prepare 1 tbsp cumin jeera /
10. Make ready 7 chillies dry red

Instructions

Steps to make Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew:

1. Cook 1 cup of moong dal(add water until the moong dal submerges or about 200 ml)  in pressure cooker up to 4 whistles or cook it in microwave for 15 minutes in high power.
2. Peel and chop the chow-chow or chayote into small cubes and put it ina vessel. Add enough water and cook this on medium heat. Sprinkle little salt for the chow-chow to cook faster.
3. Take the ingredients mentioned under "For the paste" in a blender jar, add little water(about 6 tbsps) and grind this to smooth paste. It should look like a chutney.
4. Now check if the chow-chow- or chayote is cooked by inserting a knife, if it goes in easily then it is cooked. Now add the cooked moong dal and the ground paste to this and mix. Let it boil for about 6 minutes. Keep stirring do not leave this boiling continuously on medium heat. At this stage it will easily stick to the bottom of the vessel and burn, Keep stirring in equal intervals.
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6. Take the kootu off the heat and take a tadka pan, on medium heat, crackle 1 tsp of mustard seeds and curry leaves in a tablespoon of ghee. Add this to the kootu and mix.
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