Ingredients:

• 15-20 – Okra
• Tamarind – small ball, soaked in 1.5 cups water
• 2-3 tbsp – tur dal, cooked
• 5 – Red Chillies
• 1 tsp – Bengal Gram dal
• 1 tsp – Urad Dal
• Asafoetida
• 2-3 tbsp – Coconut powder
• 1 tsp – Jaggery
• Salt to taste
• 2-3 tbsp – oil
• Mustard
• Coriander leaves

Method:

1. Cut the okra into small pieces.
2. Heat oil in a pan and fry red chillies, Bengal gram dal, urad dal, asafoetida.
3. Grind them with coconut. Heat some more oil, splutter mustard and add okra to it.
4. Fry the okra till it is not sticky.
5. Take 1.5 cups of tamarind juice. Put the fried okra into the tamarind juice along with the ground coconut paste, salt and jaggery. Pressure cook it.
6. After taking out, mix with tuvar dal.
7. Heat it again so that the kootu will get required consistency.
8. Garnish with coriander leaves.