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Avarakkai Kootu Recipe-How to make Broad Beans Kootu

March 7, 2016 by PadhuSankar 11 Comments

Broad beans kootu is very common in my home. Broad beans is known as “avarakkai” in Tamil and “Sem” in Hindi. Though it is very common in my home, I realized that I have not shared this recipe yet. It is very simple and easy to make. I had a bounty harvest of broad beans from my kitchen garden. Homegrown vegetable are not only free of chemicals but also very tasty and cooks faster compared to the ones we get from the market. You can grow broad beans in grow bags, even if you have a small balcony. Now back to Tamil Brahmin Style Avarakkai Kootu Recipe with home grown avarakkai.

Avarakkai Kootu

Avarakkai Kootu


Avarakkai Kootu

 Prep Time : 10 mins

 Cook Time : 15 mins 
 Serves: 2
 Recipe Category: Side Dish
 Recipe Cuisine: Tamil Brahmin
 Author:Padhu Sankar

   Ingredients needed

   Broad Beans – 1/4 kg (3 cups)
   Mixed Dal – 1/3 cup (refer notes)
   Sambar powder – 2 tsp
   Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
   Salt needed

   For grinding

   Grated coconut – 1/4 cup
   Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
   Roasted gram dal (pottukadalai) – 1 tbsp

   For the seasoning

   Oil – 1 tsp
   Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
   Urad dal – 1 tsp
   Curry leaves – a spig

   For garnishing

   Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp finely chopped

Preparation 

These broad beans are from my kitchen garden.


String the beans, wash and keep it ready.

avarakkai-broad beans

Grind coconut, cumin seeds and roasted gram dal to a fine paste. If you do not have roasted gram dal, use 1 1/2 tsp of rice flour instead of roasted gram dal. It is added only for thickening the kootu. Our paste is kept ready.

ground coconut jeera paste

Soak dal in hot water for 10 minutes. In the meantime, you can chop the broad beans thinly as shown in the picture below.

chopped broad beans-avarakkai

Method 


In a pressure cooker or pan, add the chopped broad beans, dal, sambar powder, turmeric powder and salt needed.


easy broad beans kootu

Add half cup of water and mix well.

How to make Broad Beans Kootu

Close the cooker and pressure cook for 3 whistles. If you do not have pressure cooker, you can make this is a kadai or any heavy bottomed pan but will take a longer time.

Broad Beans Kootu in pressure cooker

Once the pressure subsides, open the cooker, add the ground coconut paste and another half cup of water. Boil on medium heat until the kootu thickens slightly. The consistency of the kootu should neither be too thick nor thin.

Avarakkai Kootu-Tamil Brahmin style

Heat a tsp of oil, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add urad dal and curry leaves. When dal turns golden brown, pour the seasoning over the kootu and mix well.

Avarakkai Kootu Recipe

Notes – I have used a mix of 3 dals – Tur dal – 2 tbsp + moong dal – 1 tbsp + masoor dal – 1 tbsp. You can use a mix of dal or just moong dal or tur dal or masoor dal.

If using tur dal alone – You have to cook the dal separately and then add it to the cooked broad beans as it will not get cooked well along with the broad beans.


Variation
– Instead of sambar powder, you can grind 1 or 2 green or dry red chillies along with coconut and cumin seed.

3 ways to enjoy broad beans kootu/avarakkai kootu  – Mix it with hot rice topped with a tsp of ghee. You can have papads, pickle, any vegetable stir fry or salad as a side dish for this.

It can be had as a side dish for rasam or curd rice or any thogayal.

Have it as a side dish for chapati.

Broad beans (avarakkai ) growing in grow bags in my kitchen garden.

broad beans plant -avarakkai plant

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Comments

  1. Mariappan Sivasubramaniam

    March 8, 2016 at 10:12 am

    great…recipe and good to see the bb in your kitchen garden…wow…

    Reply
  2. Padma Neelakantan

    March 9, 2016 at 5:23 am

    Thank you very mucb Today I made Avarakkai Kootu. It came out very tasty

    Reply
  3. Sathiya

    March 9, 2016 at 4:26 pm

    superb. You have a wonderful blog here.this kootu looks delicious.I tried the kambu dosa recipe and it came out perfect. I have a question. Where do you get those grow bags? I live in US and I am wondering if I can buy some when I visit India this summer and bring it with me. Can you please let me know ? Are they durable ?

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      March 10, 2016 at 12:08 pm

      Thank you Sathiya. Now a days, it is available in all shops which sell garden accessories. I got it from Coimbatore. They will last for more than a year. Mail to [email protected] for more details.

      Reply
  4. Ms.Chitchat

    March 10, 2016 at 7:22 am

    Tasty kootu, loved your kitchen garden.

    Reply
  5. Alboni - Boni's Healthy Twists

    March 13, 2016 at 7:20 am

    Hi Padhu Sankar, I tried this recipe yesterday and it was delicious.

    Reply
  6. kaarthik

    August 8, 2017 at 11:42 pm

    Awesome recipe. Can I add other vegetables to this kootu. Like posanikai or chow chow or anything else. Is there any vegetables which won't go well together ? Thanks

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      August 9, 2017 at 10:35 am

      You can add chow chow, potato (chopped into small pieces), carrot and even cabbage. Do not add pumpkin or ashgourd.

      Reply
  7. kaarthik

    August 10, 2017 at 12:38 am

    Thanks a lot for your quick response.

    Reply
  8. Unknown

    September 18, 2018 at 7:29 am

    Awesome recepie

    Reply
  9. Meena

    June 19, 2019 at 4:53 pm

    Hai Padhu, I have tried and still would try many of your recepies. Happy that all the recepies came out very well. Before I came to know your site, I would cook only traditional dishes. Now I do a lot of new ones that none in my family have tried so far. Thank you for you easy and comprehensible way of explanation. Waiting for many more….

    Reply

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