Cucumber kootu is a delicious South Indian dish made with cucumber, lentils, and coconut. It is a simple and healthy dish that can be served with rice or chapati. Enjoy your cucumber kootu!
Cucumber Kootu
Course: KootuCuisine: Indian, TamilDifficulty: Easy
Servings
4
servingsPrep time
10
minutesCooking time
10
minutesLooking for a delicious side dish to complement your spicy kuzhambu? Try this cucumber kootu recipe, perfect with Chapati/roti too!
Ingredients
Cucumber – 1
Green Gram Dhal – 1/4 cup
Sambar powder – 1/2 teaspoon
Turmeric powder – a pinch
Coconut Gratings – 1 tablespoon (optional)
Salt – ½ teaspoon or as per taste
- For seasoning:
Oil – 1 teaspoon
Mustard – ½ teaspoon
Urad Dal – 1 teaspoon
Asafoetida powder – 2 pinches
Onion chopped – 1 tablespoon
Tomato chopped – 1 tablespoon
Curry leaves – few
Coriander Leaves- few
Directions
- Peel the cucumber and chop it into bite-sized pieces. Set aside.
- In an open vessel, cook the green gram dal with sufficient water and a pinch of turmeric powder. Continue cooking until the dal becomes soft and tender.
- Add the prepared cucumber pieces to the cooked dal. Sprinkle in some sambar powder and salt for flavor. Stir the mixture well and cook for an additional 2-3 minutes, or until the cucumber becomes soft.
- Incorporate grated coconut into the mixture, stirring thoroughly to combine.
- In a separate small kadai or frying pan, heat a teaspoon of oil over medium heat. Once hot, add mustard seeds and wait for them to start popping. Follow this with urad dal, a pinch of asafoetida powder, curry leaves, and finely chopped onion. Sauté until the onion becomes translucent.
- Add the chopped tomatoes to the kadai and cook briefly until they soften.
- Transfer this seasoning mixture to the dal-cucumber blend and mix well to evenly distribute the flavors.
- Garnish the dish with freshly chopped coriander leaves before serving.
Recipe Video
Notes
- Adding coconut is optional. You can also grind the coconut along with little cumin and add to the kootu.
Thanks for posting this. I have bookmarked it. I like this dish very much and will try to make it sometime.
Hi Jennifer,
Thank you.
Pl try and let me know your feedback.
Cucumber tastes good with the right mix of seasoning.
Hi Kamalas,
First of all thanks for all your postings it is very helpful to for our younger generation like me to try different variety with the healthier foods.
Now i am in need of recipe of vengayam ( Onion ) thal can you post it
Hi Ambika Keshav,
Thank you for your kind feedback. Do you require “Spring Onion” Recipes.
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Thank you Viji for your kind comments.
Hi Kamala,
Your recipes are very nice. A small clarification before i try this recipe. You have added the ingredients “green gram dal” and Sambar powder, but the color for the recipe in the image looks yellow. Please let me know is there any other dal we can use.
Hi Kalpana,
Green gram dhal is split yellow moong dhal. Cooking the yellow moong dhal with turmeric powder make the dish yellow only. Moreover I have added only 1/2 teaspoon sambar powder. Hence kootu looks yellow. You can use Thuvar dhal also for kootu. In such case cook thuvar dhal in pressure cooker and use.
Hi kamala mam just addicted to your recipes
I have a small doubt do we have to fry onion and add it to that cucumber dhal mix at the last seperately???
Yes. You have to fry separately and add at the last. To be more clear, now I have updated this post with the seasoning details.
Hi,
I tried this recipe. It turned out really good. Thanks for posting.
Thank you Vijaya for your kind feed back.