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curry leaves kuzhambu recipe /karuveppilai kuzhambu
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Total Time
30
minutes
mins
Ingredients
Tamarind - 1 small lemon size
soak and take extract
Salt to taste
Mustard - 1 tsp
Fenugreek seeds/vendhayam - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Gingelly oil - 3-4 tbsp
To roast and grind:
Curry leaves - one fist full
Oil - 2 tsp
Toor dal/thuvaram paruppu - 1 tsp
Kadala paruppu/Bngal gram dal - 1tsp
Urad dal/ulundhu - 1 tsp
Dry red chillies - 4-5
Cumin/seeragam - 1/2 tsp
Pepper - 1tsp
Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
Jaggery - 1 small piece
Instructions
Heat up a dry pan and dry roast curry leaves till nice and crisp.
Keep it separately
Now in the same kadai add oil add all the "to roast" ingredients one by one.
Till nice aroma comes roast them nicely.
Put curry leaves along with these ingredients and grind to powder.
In between take tamarind extract,filter and keep ready.
To tamarind add turmeric powder and powdered mix (taste for tanginess and adjust ).
Heat oil in a kadai add mustard to crackle then add fenugreek and hing,then immediately add tamarind mix.
Add salt and Jaggery and let it boil till oil oozes out.
Serve with rice.
Notes
If you don't like jaggery skip it.
Add tamarind carefully by checking the tanginess.
You can increase the amount of red chillies if you need.