NON VEGETARIAN AND VEGETARIAN KOOL

                                               NON VEGETARIAN

INGREDIENTS:

•  Odiyal flour ½ cup
•   Long beans 15 numbers
•   Jack fruit seeds 15 numbers
•   Tapioca medium size 10 cm long
•   Leaves from drumstick plant 2 cup s or spinach leaves
•   Turmeric powder 1/2  teaspoon
•   Crushed dry chilies 2 tablespoons
•   Tamarind paste 1 teaspoon
•   Cooked parboiled rice 2 tablespoons - (from left over rice)
•   Water 6 liters
•   Salt to taste
• Whole crab small 4 or medium 2
•  Raw prawns medium 25
•  Fish head of large fish 1 or small whole fish 5
•  Cuttlefish 100 Grams
•  You can add all or any combination of seafood items and in quantities you prefer.

       METHOD:

•  Clean, wash the fish and cut them into chunks.
• Shell the prawns and discard the shells.
• Clean and wash the crabs and cut them into four.
• Clean and wash the cuttlefish and cut them into bite size pieces.
• Wash and cut the vegetables as in vegetarian Kool above.
• In a large pot add water and bring to boil.
• Add the pieces of seafood and salt and cook for 30 minutes or until cooked.
• Add the vegetable pieces and cook further for 20 minutes.
• Now add the chopped spinach or drumstick leaves.
•  While this is cooking, prepare the odiyal flour as described above and mix this with the crushed chillies, tamarind paste and little water to make it a suspension.
• Gently pour this mixture into the pot where the vegetables and seafood are cooking.
• Now add the cooked rice and salt to taste.  Remember you have already added some salt before to the seafood.
• Keep stirring all the time to avoid lumps and until all the flour is cooked.
• Simmer in low flame until the consistency is thick but runny.
• Remove from fire and serve.
•  When you drink this Kool, take care of the fish boned in the soup.
• For some reason odiyal Kool is never cooked with meat, may be that fish was readily available.

 Substitutes in the West:

•  Frozen cleaned crab halves
• Raw shelled prawns medium 2
• Salmon fish head or pieces
• Spinach for Drumstick leaves.
• Frozen Manioc 

                                            VEGETARIAN KOOL


INGREDIENTS:

•  Odiyal flour ½ cup
•   Long beans 15 numbers
•   Jack fruit seeds 15 numbers
•   Tapioca medium size 10 cm long
•   Leaves from drumstick plant 2 cup s or spinach leaves
•   Turmeric powder 1/2  teaspoon
•   Crushed dry chillies 2 tablespoons
•   Tamarind paste 1 teaspoon
•   Cooked parboiled rice 2 tablespoons - (from left over rice)
•   Water 6 litres
• Salt to taste

METHOD: 

• Clean, wash and cut the beans and tapioca into smaller pieces. Peel off the skin, wash and cut the jack seeds into halves.
• Clean and wash the Murungai leaves or the spinach leaves and chop them.
• In a large pot, boil the vegetables - beans, jack fruit seeds and tapioca in water for five to seven minutes.
• Then add drumstick leaves or spinach and turmeric and cook in low flame until they are well cooked.
• While this is cooking, prepare the odiyal flour as described above and mix this with the crushed chillies, tamarind paste and little water to make it a suspension. Gently pour this odiyal flour mixture into the pot where the vegetables are cooking. Now add the cooked rice and salt to taste.
• Keep stirring all the time until all the flour is cooked and the mixture is thick but runny.