Sundakkai Kuzhambu Recipe With Step By Step Instructions
Sundakai kuzhambu is a tangy gravy made with fresh turkey berries and eggplant. It tastes best when eaten with hot rice.
Servings: 2
Ingredients
- Turkey berries 15 crushed with a pestle.
- Eggplant 4 quartered
- Shallots 6 to 7 peeled
- Tomato 1 large chopped into cubes
- Tamarind a small marble size
- Salt to taste
- Oil 2 tbsp
- Spice Paste:
- Freshly grated coconut 3 tbsp
- White poppy seeds 1 tbsp
- Fennel seeds 1 tsp
- Garlic cloves 4 to 5
- Red chili powder 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder 1 tsp
- Water 1/4 c
- Spice powders:
- Kashmiri chili powder 1/2 tsp
- Sambar powder 1 tsp
- Coriander powder 2 tsp
- To Temper:
- Sesame oil 1 tbsp
- Mustard seeds 1 tsp
- Fennel seeds 1 tsp
- Fenugreek seeds 1 tsp
- Urad dal 1 tsp
- Curry leaves 1 sprig
Instructions
- Soak tamarind in warm water for 15 mins and make an extract amounting to 1 cup. Add water accordingly to dilute the extract,
- Heat 2 tbsp oil in a pan.
- Add the shallots and fry till pink.
- Now add crushed turkey berries and eggplants and saute for a minute or two on medium flame.
- Add chopped tomatoes next and mix well. Cook for 2 mins on medium flame.
- To this mixture add coriander powder and sambar powder. Mix well.
- Add tamarind extract to this along with the kashmiri chili powder and simmer for 5 mins till raw smell of tamarind goes away.
- In the meanwhile grind all the ingredients for the spice paste to a smooth paste using 1/4 c of water. Use your blender to do this.
- Once the raw smell of tamarind goes away, add the spice paste along with salt to the mixture and simmer for another 5 to 7 mins until the raw smell of the spice paste goes away.
- Heat a pan with sesame oil.
- Pop the mustard and quickly tip in cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, fennel seeds and urad dal along with the curry leaves.
- Once the dal turns golden, add this to the kuzhambu and mix well.
- Serve with hot rice and appalam
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Disclaimer
Nutrition values are provided here as a courtesy and are only a rough guide. Please consult a health care provider if you have any concerns.
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