Healthy Food Recipes - Green Sundakkai Kara Kuzhambu (Turkey berry)
Posted on: 24/Dec/2014 12:31:42 PM
Ingredients:
- Sundakkai (Turkey Berry) – 1 cup
- Onion – 2 nos
- Tomato – 2 nos
- Garlic – 10 nos
- Curry Leaves – a few
- Cooking oil – 5 spoons
- Cumin Seeds – ½ spoon
- Mustard Seeds – ½ spoon
- Fenugreek – ½ spoon
- Asafoetida – a pinch
- Tamarind – a small lemon size
- Turmeric Powder – ½ spoon
- Sambar Powder – 1 ½ spoon
- Salt – To taste
Method:
- Wash the turkey berry thoroughly. Either chop the sundakkai into half or put the sundakkai in a plastic bag close it and give a crush a little with a ladle. Keep the chopped sundakkai in a bowl of water, else its colour will turn black.
- Finely chop both the onion and tomatoes.
- Heat 3 spoons of oil in a kadai, add the mustard seeds, cumin seeds, and fenugreek and let them splutter.
- Now add the curry leaves, chopped onion and garlic and a pinch of asafoetida and sauté well till the onion colour changes golden brown.
- Now add the chopped tomato and cook till it gets mashed well and raw smell leaves.
- Add the crushed sundakkai, salt, sambar powder and turmeric powder and sauté for 2mins.
- Add required quantity of water and close the lid.
- Let it boil for about 5 minutes and now add the tamarind juice to it.
- At some time, you will notice the floating of oil on top of the kuzambhu and it is the time you switch off the flame and remove it in a serving bowl.
- This green sundakkai Kara kuzambhu will be great with the steam rice! Enjoy its tangy taste!
Note:
- If you want the Kara Kuzambhu in a thicker consistency, once you add the tamarind juice, just grind a piece of coconut and add it to the dish and boil it for some time.
- Else, just mix 1 spoon of rice flour and mix it with water and add it to the kuzambhu, it will give thicker consistency.
- Sundakkai has the potent to treat paralysis.
- Sundakkai is rich in calcium, and thus it aids in strengthening the bones.
- It helps in slaying the germs in the body.
- Incorporate Sundakkai at least once in a week, it helps in lowering blood sugar level considerably.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
