Boil about 3 cups of water and add sambar powder and salt to it.

Cut drumsticks into 2 inch pieces and add to the boiling water. Allow it to cook well.

Heat some oil in a pan and fry red chillies, pepper,urad dal, gram dal, asafoetida and coconut to golden colour and grind them together. Add this ground paste to the cooked drumsticks.

Add cooked tur dal. If the kootu is slightly watery, mix some rice flour with water and add to it to get required consistancy.

Splutter some mustard and urad dal in oil and add it to the kootu.

Garnish with curry leaves.