Milagu kuzhambu

Ingredients:
Tamarind , one big  gooseberry size.
Salt 1 tsp

To roast and grind to paste:
2 tsp urad dal
1.5 tsp pepper corns.

To garnish
1Tbsp Gingelly oil
1/2 tsp mustard
A pinch of hing/Asafoetida.
1 sprig curry leaves or karuveppilai.

Clean and soak the tamarind for 1/2 an hour. Extract the juice and keep aside.

Roast the urad dal and pepper corn in a pan and let it cool

Grind them  to a smooth paste.

Mix into  the tamarind juice without any lumps.

Add half a pinch of raw hing/asafoetida and let it boil till the raw smell goes.

In a heated pan add gingelly oil and as soon as the oil is hot add mustard seeds, half a pinch of hing and curry leaves and pour it on the milagu kuzhambu.

Mix with hot steamed rice with gingelly oil .Tastes yummy with paruppu thuvayal and sutta urad dal appalam.

Paruppu Thuvayal:

This is a very tasty and simple thuvayal and goes best with Milagu kuzhambu.


Ingredients:

3 tablespoons Toor dal
2tsp Pepper corns
A pinch of hing
Salt to taste


Roast the toor dal and peppercorns in a drop of oil in low flame till the dal turns golden brown.
Let it cool.

Grind with a pinch of hing/asafoetida and salt  adding water little by little.

Serve with hot steamed rice, a dollop of  milagu kuzhambu ,1 tsp gingelly oil and sutta appalam.

Tastes really yum.