Vendakkai Puli kuzhambu

 Ingredients:

Lady's finger	10-12(cut into 2" pieces)
Onions	1 regular(cut in to pieces)
Tomato	1/2 regular
Salt	as per taste
Curry leaves
Mustard seeds	1tsp
Sesame oil or cooking oil	4tbl
Tamrind paste	1/2 cup
Sambhar powder	1tsp

 

 

To grind:

Garlic	2 Cloves
Jeera	2 Tsp
Toor Dhal	1Tsp
Pepper	4
Red chilli	3
Coconut	3 Tbs

Method:

 

 

• In a pan add 2tbl of oil and fry the cut lady's fingers and transfer it into kitchen towel and keep seperately.
• now in the same pan add a tspn of oil slightly  fry the items in the grind list ., cool it and grind it to a fine paste.
• In a pan add oil(sesame oil pref.)add mustard seed when splutters add curry leaves now add onion to it
• saute nicely till it becomes transperant. then add grind paste to it and tomatoes to it and saute it nicely . you can add little water if the mixture is too dry. now add thick tamrind paste to it and bring it to boil.
• now add  sambhar powder to it  and salt as per taste. and bring the kuzhambhu to boil till the raw flavour goes.
• Now add fried lady's finger  to the kuzhambhu and bring it to boil till the oil comes out.
• boil it in low /medium flame.

 

 

Serve it with hot rice.

 

 

note:if you don't have sambhar powder you can use each spoon of corriander powder and 1/2tsp of chilli powder,taste doesn't change a lot.
if you don't want to use garlic u can skip it.
sesame oil gives little more aroma then normal cooking oil. but taste  doesn't change.