Here is a simple and tasty recipe with most healthy vegetable "The super Ginger". Get ready to prepare your taste buds to relish this authentic South Indian recipe.
Ingredients:
50 gm ginger (peeled & grated)
1 tbsp Kadala paruppu (bengal gram)
2 lemon sized tamarind ball soaked in little water
20 - 25 whole red chillis
1/4 tsp asafoetida
1/4 cup jaggery
1 tsp red chilli powder
8-10 curry leaves
1/4 tsp fenugreek powder
1 cup vegetable oil/groundnut oil
Salt as per taste
1/4 tsp mustard seeds
Method:
- Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, allow it to splutter.
- Then add bengal gram, whole red chillis without the stalk, curry leaves, asafoetida and ginger. Saute well for 2 mins. Make sure it doesn’t stick to the pan.
- Squeeze out the tamarind juice into the wok. The juice should be thick in consistency.
- Add the seasonings - salt and red chilli powder. Mix well. Allow to cook on simmer for about 15 minutes.
- Add the jaggery when the gravy starts to thicken and come together. Check the flavours and adjust taste.
- Mix well and allow it to simmer till jaggery melts into the gravy.
- You will see a nice thick gravy, at this time add the fenugreek powder and turn off the flame.
- Serve with rice, chapati or curd rice.
- This can be preserved for 10 days, 1 month if refrigerated.