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Vendiya keerai kuzhambu
By : chitra
Category : Fenugreek, South indian, South Indian lunches
Servings : 4-5
Time Taken : 15-30 mins
Rating :
Method
  1. Cook tur dal with turmeric powder in a pressure cooker.
  2. Soak the tamarind in warm water for 10-15 mins and extract the juice.
  3. Cut tomato into small pieces.
  4. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds.
  5. As mustard seeds splutter, add fenugreek seeds, asafoetida and curry leaves.
  6. Once fenugreek seeds turn golden brown, add tomato and slit chilli.
  7. Then add vendiya keerai and sambar powder.
  8. Saute for a minute, then add tamarind juice and salt.
  9. Let it boil for 10 minutes until the methi leaves are cooked
  10. Add boiled tur dal and jaggary to it.
  11. Add water in the middle if required.
  12. Let it boil for 10 mts till it becomes thick as kuzhambu.
  13. If it is watery, dissolve half a tsp of rice powder in water and mix with the kuzhambu and allow it to boil for 2 minutes.
  14. Switch off the stove and transfer to serving dish.
  15. Serve hot with rice, rotis or kichidi.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup - tur dal
1 - tomato
1 cup - vendiya keerai/fenugreek, chopped
1 - green chilli (slit vertically)
1 tsp - sambar powder
1 sprig - curry leaves
1/2 tsp - turmeric powder
1/4 tsp - asafoetida
1 tsp - mustard seeds
3 tsp - oil
1/2 tsp - fenugreek seeds
Salt as taste
1/2 tsp - jaggery (optional)
Tamarind, marble size
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