• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Padhuskitchen


  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • RECIPE INDEX
  • VIDEOS
  • USEFUL TIPS
  • TESTIMONIALS
  • FESTIVAL RECIPES
    • Avani Avittam
    • Pongal Festival
    • Vinayaka Chaturthi
    • Thiruvathirai
    • Navratri Recipes-Navratri Sundal Recipes
    • Varalakshmi Vratham
    • Karadaiyan Nombu
    • Tamil New Year
    • Adi Perukku
    • Krishna Jayanthi
    • Diwali
    • Karthigai Deepam
    • Christmas
    • Onam
  • CONTACT
  • Side Dish For Chapati

Vallarai Keerai Kootu-Vallarai Paruppu Kootu Recipe

January 30, 2018 by PadhuSankar 2 Comments

Centella asiatica, Centella, Asiatic pennywort is a herb, known as Gotu kola in Sri Lankan cuisine, as brahmi booti in Hindi, vallarai keerai in Tamil, kudangal in Malayalam and ondelaga in Kannada. I prepare vallarai dishes often as it is very good for health and also it grows abundantly in my kitchen garden. It is easy to grow vallarai at home. Vallarai keerai is very nutritious and has medicinal properties. It helps to improve memory power and concentration. It is said to promote hair growth and is good for the skin also. It can be helpful in treating skin disorders like eczema and psoriasis. Today we will learn how to make vallarai kootu following our easy recipe with step wise pictures.

Vallarai Keerai Kootu-vallarai kootu

Vallarai Keerai Kootu


Vallarai Keerai Kootu

 Prep Time : 20 mins

 Cook Time : 15 mins 
 Serves: 2-3
 Recipe Category: Side Dish-Kootu-Greens
 Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
 Author:Padhu Sankar

   Ingredients needed

   Vallarai keerai – 2 cups tightly packed
   Moong dal – 1/4 cup
   Onion – 1
   Tomato – 1
   Salt to taste

   For Grinding (raw)

   Grated Coconut – 1/4 cup
   Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
   Fried gram – 1 tsp
   Red chilli – 1-2

   For Seasoning

   Oil – 2 tsp
   Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
   Urad dal -1 tsp
   Red chilli -1
   Hing – a pinch
   Pearl onions – 4-5 (optional)

Preparations

Wash vallarai leaves and keep it aside. You can use the tender stems for making kootu, as you see in the picture below.

Chop onion and tomatoes.

Soak moong dal (pasi paruppu) for 5-10 minutes in hot water. Soaking is optional but I prefer to do it, so that it gets cooked to a mush.

Vallarai Kootu recipe

Grind coconut, red chillies, fried gram (pottukadalai in Tamil/daliya in Hindi) and cumin seeds to fine paste and keep it aside.

how to make keerai kootu

Method


In a pressure pan or small cooker, add moong dal, vallarai leaves, onion, tomato and 1/2 cup of water.

Pressure cook for 2 whistles.

Vallarai Paruppu Kootu

Once the pressure subsides, open the cooker and mash the contents well. Add salt needed.

Add the ground coconut paste and simmer for 5 minutes. That’s it.

vallarai kootu recipe

Now we will do the seasoning – Heat a tsp of oil, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add urad dal, red chillies and hing. Add finely chopped pearl onions and saute until it turns transparent.

Add to the kootu. Enjoy nutritious vallarai kootu as an accompaniment with rice.

how to make vallarai kootu

Our Lunch that day was – Bittergourd pitlai, cauliflower curry, beetroot pachadi, vallarai kootu and homemade curd.

South Indian lunch spread   

Check out my delicious Vallarai Thuvaiyal (chutney) which can be had as side dish for dosa and  can also be mixed with rice topped with a tsp of gingerly oil.

If you found this post useful, I would really love it, if you pin it or share it with your Facebook fans or Twitter followers or Google+ circles or Instagram today. All it takes is a simple click on the “pin it” “like,” “share,” “tweet,” or Google+ buttons below the post.  Thank you!

Related posts:

Potato Kurma Recipe-Potato Korma for Chapati
Green Tomato Chutney Recipe-Thakkali Kai Chutney for Rice-Dosa
Oats Dosa Recipe-Instant Oats Dosa
Masala powder

Filed Under: Poriyal and Kootu Varieties, Side dish, Uncategorized Tagged With: Greens, Health Dish, South Indian recipes, Uncategorized




Previous Post: « Chow Chow Poricha Kootu Recipe-Bangalore Kathirikkai Poricha Kootu
Next Post: Beetroot Couscous Pilaf Recipe-Indian Style Easy Couscous Recipes »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Prem Raj

    February 1, 2018 at 4:54 am

    ollarai keerai is a boon to mankind I could say. Will you kindly tell me the method to grow it in pots pl. Kindly Update at the earlieast.

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      February 1, 2018 at 9:32 am

      I have already posted how to grow vallarai. Click the link "grow vallarai at home" in the introduction or check useful tips page.

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Primary Sidebar

About the Author

Meet Padhu, the Chef, the photographer, recipe developer and web designer behind Padhuskitchen which features Simple Indian Vegetarian recipes, healthy recipes, kids friendly recipes, Indian festival recipes, traditional South Indian Vegetarian ...

Read More

Padhuskitchen Recipes on YouTube

Padhuskitchen Youtube

Browse by Cuisines

Kerala Recipes
Punjabi Recipes
Andhra Recipes
Gujarathi Recipes
Maharashtrian
Tamil Brahmin Recipes
Karnataka
International
Indo Chinese Recipes

Browse by Categories

Let’s Connect

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • Pinterest
  • RSS Feed






Recent Posts

  • Instant Tamarind Rice-Instant Puliyodharai Recipe-Easy Puli Sadam
  • Idli using Idli Rava-Easy Idli Recipe using Rice Rava
  • Gujarathi Lauki Muthia-Bottlegourd Muthiya Recipe-Easy Healthy Tea Time Snack
  • Whole Wheat Jaggery Cake-Healthy Wheat Cake-Atta Cake Recipe
  • Bhapa Doi Recipe-Steamed Yogurt Pudding-Bengali Yogurt Sweet Dish




Baby Recipes

Baby Recipes

https://youtu.be/vsA6t0UesI8

Copyright © 2021 Padhuskitchen