Kootanchoru or Kootanjoru
A recipe from Tirunelveli district. Ingredients: Jeeraga Chamba Rice - 1 cup Tuvar Dal - 1/4 cup Tamarind paste - 2 tbsp Drumsticks - 2 nos Shallots (Sambar or small onions) - 6 nos Onions - 2 nos French Beans - 8 nos Hyacinth Beans (Avaraikkai) - 6 nos Carrot - 2 nos medium Potato - 2 nos Raw Banana - 1 no Brinjal - 2 cups Salt to taste Turmeric powder - 1 tsp Grated coconut - 1 1/2 cup Dried Chillies - 12 nos Cumin seeds - 1 tsp Corinder seeds - 2 tsp Bengal Gram - 1 1/2 tbsp Oil - 4 tbsp Ghee - 4 tbsp Mustard seeds - 1 tsp Asafodeita powder - 1/2 tsp Asafodeita piece - 1/2 inch Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tsp Curry leaves - 1/2 cup Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup Method: Cut drumsticks into 3 inch pieces. Chop onions finely. Dice beans, brinjal, potaotes, carrot, hyacinth to reasonable size cubes. In a frying pan add 1 tbsp of oil and when hot add coriander seeds, cumin seeds, dried chillies, 1/4 cup of curry leaves and asafodeita piece one by one and fry till