Balekai mosaru kootu recipe | How to make raw banana majjige sambar
By Latha on August 17th, 2024
Balekai mosaru kootu or raw banana majjige sambar recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. Balekayi kootu is a very tasty and easy gravy recipe prepared using raw banana, coconut, green chilli, cumin seeds and a tempering. Baalekai or raw banana majjige huli tastes good with hot steaming rice.
Raw banana has numerous health benefits. They are good for heart, excellent source of fibres, packed with vitamins, good for gut and good for weight loss. Also raw bananas are easily available throughout the year at very affordable price. I have posted another very tasty raw banana palya recipe on this website. Do check it out.
The Karnataka cuisine is so rich that there are so many varities of sambar recipes. Actually the sambar recipe varies from region to region, family to family and the type of vegetable used.
If you are looking for more sambar or rasam recipes then do check my amaranthus or harive soppina huli, upsaaru, dill leaves rasam, bendekayi kayirasa, massoppu, yellow cucumber sambar, tomato rasam, recipes from doddapatre, shunti thambuli and okra sambar recipes.
I have made a video on this balekayi mosaru kootu recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 20 min
Serves: 3
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 2 balekai or raw bananas
- 2 tsp salt (or as per your taste)
- 1/2 cup curd or thick buttermilk
Ingredients for grinding: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1/2 cup grated coconut
- 2 - 4 green chillies
- 1 tsp jeera or cumin seeds
Ingredients for tempering:
- 1 red chilli
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 5 - 6 curry leaves
- Big pinch of asafoetida
- 2 tsp cooking oil
Instruction for making balekai mosaru kootu:
- Remove the outer skin of raw bananas and chop them.
- Take the chopped raw bananas in a container. Add salt and water as required.
- Keep it for boiling and cook until soft.
- Meanwhile, take grated coconut, green chillies and cumin seeds in a mixie jar. Grind it into a paste by adding required water.
- Once the raw bananas are cooked, add in ground masala. Give it a quick mix and keep it for boiling.
- Adjust the salt as per your taste.
- Adjust the consistency and boil it for 2 minutes. Switch off the stove.
- Add in curd or thick buttermilk. Make sure it is not very sour.
- Temper it with oil, red chilli, mustard seeds, asafoetida and curry leaves.
- Serve tasty balekai mosaru kootu with hot steaming rice.
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