Turnip greens are just sauteed with onions, garlic and tempered with with mustard, red chilly and curry leaves. Goes well with hot steamed white rice.
Ingredients
1 Small Bunch of Turnip Greens (Fresh)
½ Cup of Moong Dal
1 Onion, Chopped
2 Garlic Cloves, chopped
2 Tbsp of Grated Coconut (fresh)
1.5 Tsp of Cumin Powder (roasted)
½ Tsp of Black Pepper Powder
¼ Tsp of Turmeric Powder
Pinch of Asafoetida
Salt to taste
1 Tsp of Ghee
To Temper
2 Tsp of Coconut Oil
1 Tsp of Mustard Seeds
½ Tsp of Urad Dal
2 Red Chilies
Few Curry Leaves
Instructions
Soak the moong dal in water for 30 mins. Drain the water, wash the dal and keep it aside.
Wash and roughly chop the greens and dice the stalks.
Heat the cooker, add dal, water, turmeric powder and salt. Cook it for 3 whistles.
Heat a pan with oil, temper it with mustard seeds, urad dal, red chilly, curry leaves, asafoetida.
Add onion and garlic, fry until golden brown.
In a low flame, add coconut, fry it for a min.
Add cumin powder, pepper powder, fry for few secs.
Add greens, saute this till it reduces in size.
Add cooked dal, mix well, add water if needed, cook it for few mins and finally add ghee, mix it and remove it from heat.
Serve with hot steamed rice.
Notes
You can try same kootu with any dals (toor dal / bengal gram) or any greens (spinach/radish/kale). Adjust number of red chilies according to your taste. You can also add 1 green chilly, if you like. Use any oil for tempering. I love coconut oil for kootu so I used it.
Recipe by FoodyBuddy at http://foodybuddy.net/2016/02/29/turnip-greens-kootu-recipe-indian-style.html