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Ingredients

• Peerkankai ————————- 1
• Raw peanuts ———————- 1/3 cup
• Split green gram —————- 1/3 cup
• Turmeric powder ————— 1/4 tsp
• For Grinding
  • Grated coconut ————- 1/4 cup
  • Garlic cloves —————– 2
  • Cumin seeds —————– 1/2 tsp
  • Green chilies —————– 2
• For seasoning
  • Cumin seeds —————– 1/4 tsp
  • Mustard seeds ————— 1/4 tsp
  • Dry chilies ——————— 4
  • Curry leaf ———————– 1 spring

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How to make

• Wash and remove the skin from the peerkankai (See the peerkankai chutney recipe for making chutney from the skin)
• Dice the peerkankai into small pieces
• In a pressure cooker add the diced peerkankai, peanuts, split green gram, turmeric powder, salt and little water

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• Place the cooker on the stove in medium heat
• Wait for two whistles and switch off the stove
• In the meantime, grind all the things in the grinding list with little water using a mixer / blender.
• Make a medium fine paste
• Once the pressure is released, open the cooker and pour the paste into the cooker

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• Cook for 5 more minutes in medium heat without closing the lid
• Now do the seasoning
• In a small pan add oil and keep in medium heat
• Add the mustard seeds and once it crackles, add the cumin seeds, dry chilies and curry leaf
• Pour this into the peerkankai kootu

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• Now it should be ready to serve