Monday, March 10, 2008

Black Channa Puli Kuzhambu

Puli kuzhambu which is made with potatoes. This is little hot and sour gravy which is served with plain rice.

Ingredients:
Black Chick Peas- 1 cup(cooked)
onion- 1/2 (sliced)
garlic- 5 pods
potato- 2 (cubed)
tomato- 1 (chopped)
curry leaves- few
tamarind- 2 tsp
sambar powder- 2 tsp
chilli powder- 1/4 tsp
jaggery- small marble size
vadagam- 1 tsp

Procedure:
Heat oil in kadai and fry onions, garlic, curry leaves,potatoes and turmeric powder. Next add tomatoes and cook till soft. Then add tamarind paste, sambar powder and chilli powder. Add 1 1/2 cups water, jaggery and bring to a nice boil. Then add boiled channa and bring to another boil. Finally fry vadagam and add to the gravy.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

what is vadagam? sorry, I am not a tamil.