Potato paal kootu recipe, Potato paal curry, easy and yummy potato kootu recipe, pairs well with kuska, biryani, chapati,poori, idli, and dosa. Potato paal kootu recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures.
When I was in 8th standard I cooked a dish for the first time on my own. A very good friend of mine used to bring a kurma-type potato dish and chapati for lunch. I loved the taste and asked her mom for the recipe and tried it at home. Those days, we don’t eat much onion/garlic at home. So when amma was not at home, I cooked the dish with some assistance from my paati | grandmother.
This potato paal kootu is the first dish I cooked on my own. My paati loved it and it tasted closer to the one, which my friend used to bring. That’s how I got more interest in cooking.
This is a popular recipe in South Indian Tamil weddings. They usually serve as an accompaniment for biryani or as a side for poori in the reception.
Moving on to the recipe, we are using potato and little peas as the key vegetable in this recipe. Though the name indicates paal kootu, we are not adding milk in this recipe. As the color is white in color we are naming it paal kootu.
You can check out, Dosa kurma, Tomato kootu, parangikkai paal kootu.
Potato paal kootu recipe
Potato paal kootu recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups boiled and cubed potatoes
- ¼ cup frozen peas
- 3 tsp oil
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 finely chopped onion
- 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- ½ portion tomato
- Few curry leaves
- 2 slit green chili
- 1 cup water
- Salt as needed
- Few coriander leaves
To grind
- ¼ cup coconut
- 1 tsp fennel seeds
- 7-10 cashew nuts
- 1 green chili
- ¼ cup water
Instructions
- In a mixie jar add the coconut, fennel seeds, cashew nuts and green chili.
- Grind this into a fine paste by adding water.
- In a pan add the oil and add the bay leaf. You can add a small piece of cinnamon, 2 cloves, a cardamom to this.
- Add the slit green chili and curry leaves
- Saute for few seconds and add the finely chopped onions.
- Add little salt and saute till translucent. Do not change the color.
- Now add the ginger garlic paste and cook for a minute.
- Add in the chopped tomato and cook for a minute.
- Add the green peas now. I have added frozen green peas, you can add fresh peas too.
- If adding fresh peas, boil this separately and then add.
- Saute for a minute.
- Now add the boiled potato.
- Mix well.
- Add the ground coconut paste to this.
- Now add in 1 cup of water.
- Mix well and add salt.
- Cover this and cook for 3 minutes.
- Once done, switch off the flame.
- Garnish with coriander leaves.
Notes
2. Potato paal kootu pairs well with kuska, biryani, chapati and idli dosa too.
How to make potato paal kootu
- In a mixie jar add the coconut, fennel seeds, cashew nuts and green chili.
- Grind this into a fine paste by adding water.
- In a pan add the oil and add the bay leaf. You can add a small piece of cinnamon, 2 cloves, a cardamom to this.
- Add the slit green chili and curry leaves
- Saute for few seconds and add the finely chopped onions.
- Add little salt and saute till translucent. Do not change the color.
- Now add the ginger garlic paste and cook for a minute.
- Add in the chopped tomato and cook for a minute.
- Add the green peas now. I have added frozen green peas, you can add fresh peas too.
- If adding fresh peas, boil this separately and then add.
- Saute for a minute.
- Now add the boiled potato.
- Mix well.
- Add the ground coconut paste to this.
- Now add in 1 cup of water.
- Mix well and add salt.
- Cover this and cook for 3 minutes.
- Once done, switch off the flame.
- Garnish with coriander leaves.
- You can add 2 tbsp of milk towards the end and switch off the stove.
- Potato paal kootu pairs well with kuska, biryani, chapati and idli dosa too.
Thanks for the recipe Jeyashree.. In Madurai, we add Butterbeans also.. My favourite
Oh ya, I remember that. Butter beans are my all-time favorite. Thanks for reminding