MURUNGAKKAI KARA KUZHAMBU (DRUMSTICK IN TAMARIND GRAVY) RECIPE MARATHON 2 DAY 7

Ingredients:---
Drumsticks – 2no
Sambar Onion – 10—15
Garlic -5-6 cloves
Big Onion – 1 finely chopped
Tomato – 1finely chopped
grated coconut -1 tab sp
Tamarind – small lemon size
Sambar Powder – 1 heaped tab sp
Turmeric Powder – ½ tea sp
Gingelly Oil – 2 tab sp(or you can use sunflower oil also but gingely oil will give a better taste)
Mustard – ½ tea sp
Fenugreek – 1/4 tea sp
Red Chillies – 2
Bengal Gram Dhal – 1 tab sp
Curry leaves – few
Salt – to taste
Method:
Soak tamarind in water. Squeeze out the juice, add water and make 2 cups of tamarind water.
Cut the drumstick s into medium size pieces.
Chop tomato and onion very finely
peel the sambar onion and garlic.
In a sauce pan add one tea sp oil and add big onion pieces and fry till it turns transparent.
now Add tomato pieces and fry till the tomatoes mashed well. Add grated coconut and sambar powder and fry for two minutes. Remove and cool it. When it is cooled, grind to a fine paste.
Add the remaining oil to the same sauce pan When it is hot add mustard. When it popup, add bengal gram dhal, red chillies broken into pieces, curry leaves.
Then add fenugreek and fry till it turns light brown.
Add sambar onions and garlic fry well.
Then add drumstick pieces and fry for two to three minutes.
Add tamarind water along with turmeric powder. Bring to boil. Reduce the heat and cook till the drumstick become soft.
Now add the ground paste along with a cup of water and stir well. Allow to cook in very low flame for 5 to 8 minutes.


After grinding the coconut and tomato, you can wash the mixie with a cup of water and add that to the paste and make it semi liquid.
If you add this liquid, it will blend with the kuzhambu well.
You can also prepare this Kuzhambu with green banana, or in combination of brinjal, Drumstick, broadbeans.
Serve with hot plain rice and any poriyal(vegetable stir fry) I served with kovakka poriyal(tindora, kunduru,dondakaya).
And you can use this Kuzhambu as a side dish for idli,dosa,and pongal too.
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