Vatral Kuzhambu
Some vegetables can be sun dried and preserved.
These vegetables when sun dried are called vatral
and used in a curry and it can be eaten with rice.
Ingredients:
Dried vegetables - 100 gms
Gingelly oil - 1 Tblsp
Tamarind extract - 1/4 cup
Sambar powder - 2 tsps
Salt - as required
Jaggery - little.
For Seasoning
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Asafoetida powder - little
Fenugreek - 1/2 tsp
Broken Red Chillies - 2
Thuar dhal - 1½ tsps.
To make Vatral Kuzhambu
Heat oil, add seasonings and then fry dried
vegetables till it becomes dark. Add sambhar
powder to the oil.
Pour tamarind extract, salt and boil.
Mix little rice flour in water and add to
boiling gravy. Allow the gravy to boil till
it becomes thick.
Add a little jaggery at the end for taste.
Garnish with curry leaves.
Variations
Fresh vegetables like brinjal, beans, broad
beans colocasia can be used to prepare this curry.
Peeled garlic 2 pods can be used to make this
curry too. Garlic, small onions too can be used
to make this kuzhambu.
If the sambar powder is not available, add red
chilli powder (1 tsp) and coriander powder
(2 tsps) to the oil.
Add roasted fenugreek powder (1/2 tsp.) just
before removing from fire.
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