Mochai Kuzhambu

Description

A rare dish in North India as Mochai is usually used in South…..
Ingredients
1 cup Garlic
1 cup Small onions
2 Tomatoes (chopped)
Tamarind (lemon size)
¼ tsp Haldi
¼ tsp Hing
½ tsp Jaggery
1 tsp Urad dal
3 T Gingelly oil
5 T Coconut milk
1 cup Mochai
3 Red chilli
½ tsp Pepper corns
1 tsp Khus khus – roasted and ground
1 tsp Jeera
1 tsp Chilli powder
Salt (as per taste
2 T Dhaniya
1 tsp Mustard
4 stks Curry leaves

Instructions

Soak mochai overnight and cook for 12 mts on low flame the next morning.

Take 1 tsp oil in a pan, saute jeera, pepper, khus khus and red chillies,dhaniya. Cool and grind.

Put 2 Tbsp oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, urad dal, curry leaves, garlic, onion and saute till brown. Add tomatoes and saute till soft.

Add 1 tsp chilli powder, haldi, hing, ground mixture, and cook well. Add 1 cup water, tamarind pulp, mochai and cook.

When oil leaves the sides, add coconut milk and simmer for 5 mts.

Serve hot with Rice, vadam and aloo curry.

Comments

8 responses to “Mochai Kuzhambu”

  1. saranravi Avatar
    saranravi

    recipe looks good…I’ll try this today.

  2. Mullai Avatar
    Mullai

    Shalini, mochai poricha kuzhambu looks good !! Lucky you.. those soaked mochai looks awesome.

    1. shalinivenkatesh Avatar
      shalinivenkatesh

      thnk u so much…. happy to see tht u liked it.. do u get mochai in US?

  3. divya mubarak Avatar
    divya mubarak

    nice kozhambu..shalini,
    Divya Mubarak

  4. Sadhanaraveen Avatar
    Sadhanaraveen

    HI Shalini nice recipe , select all the table 2 recipe as 2 then it will show as table 2….

    Sadhana Raveen

  5. AMUDHA Avatar
    AMUDHA

    Hi

    u r giving table 2 ingredents to grind what is table 2 ingredients,

    regards
    amudha

    1. shalinivenkatesh Avatar
      shalinivenkatesh

      thks for letting me knw. i have updated the recipe accordingly…

  6. danalakshmi Avatar
    danalakshmi

    romba nalla erruku shalini, i will try this weekend
    regards
    dana