Kootan choru

Ingredients: 
Rice - 200 gms
Gram dhal or Thoor dhal- 50 gms 
(Gram dhal will give more taste)
chilli powder - 2 tspTurmeric - a pinch.
Asafoetida - a pinch.
tamarind - small gooseberry size.
cumin powder- 1/2 teaspoon.salt.
To grind :
grated coconut -  1/4 cup.
garlic- 2 cloves
small onion- 4 nos


vegetables:
mango - 4 pieces
carrot -1.
unripe banana- 1 small size.
brinjal - 2 small.
drumstick - 1.
tomato - 2
potato - 1 small size
murungakeerai  - a handful.
small onion - 5 nos.

Method:
Soak the  dhal and rice for 1/2 and hour.
cut the vegetables into small pieces.
Bring 4 cups of water to boil and add  dhal, turmeric, asafoetida. cook it almost soft. Then add rice and vegetables.
Then add chilli powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder and salt.
Then After 90 % cooked add tamarind extract and add grinded coconut. 
Then fry murungakeerai in kadaai with little oil and then add with rice. 
In kadaai fry mustard seed, 1 red chilli and curry leaves with oil and add to rice.
Reduce the flame and Cover it. After 10 minutes put off the flame . 
Now Kootan choru is ready.


Serve with Ellu thovaiyal, mango pickles, reidha and appalam.