Mom in Law’s Palakkad recipes - Molakuttal

Mother in Law’s Palakkad recipes

Most favourite – Palakkad Molakuttal recipe

Ingredients: 200 gm Vegetable, 2 Tspn Jeera, 50gm scrapped coconut (thenga turuval), salt, 2 pieces of red chilli (vettal milagai), 2 ladles (30 gm) tuvar dal (tuvaram paruppu), 1/2 ladle coconut oil (edible), mustard and ural dal (ulutham paruppu) for garnishing

Procedures:

1. Cook vegetable along with the dal in cooker till dal can be fully mashed.
2. Remove the cooked vegetable and dal and put it in a vessel (in which you can cook the molakuttal). Pour half glass water and Stir it with a ladle so that the dal gets mashed well enough without mashing the vegetable.
3. Grind finely jeera, rock salt, scrapped coconut and red chilli together in a mixie. It should be smooth enough to get mixed with the molakuttal and should not stand out as separate particle.
4. Add the ground paste to the vegetable and dal in the vessel and mix them all together. Boil the mixture till the bubbles come up.
5. Sprout mustard and urad dal in coconut oil and add to the mixture.

Choice:

a.       Add addition plan coconut oil to the vegetable (choice). This enhances the smell and flavor of the dish.

b.      If the mixture is thick, it will serve the purpose as a side dish and if you would like to mix it with rice , then add required water and boil it with the mixture to reduce the thicknedd.

Note: Vegetable used for molakuttal could be White / Red Pumpkin (Pushnikkai / Ellavan / Matthan / Kaddu), Drumstick (Murungakkai), Yam (Sennai Kizhangu), Raw Banana (Vazahakai / Kacha Kella)

Receipe by: Kamala Swaminathan

Compiled by: Aparna RamMohan Sridhar