Iyangar Pulli Kuttu

Ingredients :

• Pumpkin - 1/4 kg [ peel and cut into cubes ]
• Raw banana- 1 [ peel and cut into cubes ]
• Yam [ sanai ] - 1/2 kg [ peel and cut into cubes ]
• Tamarind paste - 1/2 tsp
• Tuvar dahl - 1/4 cup
• Channa dahl - 2 hand full
• Kuttu podi - 4 to 5 spoon
• Salt - as required
• Green chilli - 1 [ slit ]
• Turmeric - 1/4 tsp
• Grated coconut - 3 tbsp
• Rice flour - 2 spoon  [ dissolved  in 1/2 cup water ]

For seasoning :

• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
• Urad dal - 1/2 tsp
• Curry leaves - little
• Coconut oil - 2 tsp

Method :

Take one pressure cooker, add tuvar dal, channa dal, cut vegetables, tamarind paste, salt and turmeric powder. Add slight chilli and required water to that and close the lid. Wait for 3 whistles to come till the vegetables and dal becomes soft. When the pressure goes, open the cooker and add the kuttu podi and mix well. Grind the coconut and add to the kuttu. Allow to boil for 10 minutes in a low flame. Finely add the rice water to that. Heat oil and add mustard seeds. When it pops, add urad dal. Wait till it changes to light brown colour. Then add curry leaves and pour to the kuttu. Serve with hot sambhar rice, rasam rice.

Kuttu podi :

• Red chilli  - 10 to 12
• Black broken dal [ ulutham parupu ] - 100 gms
• Cumin seeds - 4 to 5 spoon
• Black pepper - 2 spoon
• Dry coconut [ sukka copra ] - 1 [ grated ]
• Asafoetida - 1 tsp

       
 [ Fry all the ingredients except copra in little ghee or oil till it becomes golden in colour. Then remove from the gas. When it becomes cool, grind in mixer along with grated coconut. You can keep this powder for 1 month ].