Vathal Kuzhambu / Vathal Kulambu / Sundaikkai Vathal Kulambu / Tirunelveli style Vathal Kulambu

Vathal Kulambu / Sundaikkai Vathal Kulambu / Tirunelveli style Vathal Kulambu:

Vathal Kulambu is my favourite curry. Sundakkai vathal kulambu is a mouth watering one, eventhough the sundakkai have bitter taste  i love this recipe. Now lets see how to make the vathal kulambu using sundakkai.

Ingredients:

1. Sundaikkai - 2 tsbp
2. kadalai paruppu - 1 tbsp
3. Black seasame seeds - 1 tbsp
4. Grated coconut - 1 cup
5. Shallots/ small onions - 1 cup
6. Ghee - 1 tsp
7. Dry chillies - 4- 5 nos
8. Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
9. Urad dhal -1 tsp
10. Tomato - 2
11. Onion - 1 (finely chopped)
12. Sambar powder - 1 tsp
13. Chilli powder -1 tsp
14. Coriander powder - 1tsp
15. Cumin powder - 1 tsp
16. Tamarind - 1 small gooseberry size
17. Jaggery - 1/8 cup ( 2 - 3 tsp )
18. Gingelly oil - 2 tbsp

Method:

• I use clay pot for making this curry.
• Heat a cooking clay pot and add 1 tsp of ghee.
  
• Add the dry sundakkai and fry it in low flame and take the fried sundakkai out from the pot.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• In the remaining ghee in the pot add bengal gram and fry it , remove from the pot after frying.
   
  
• Add Seasame seeds in the pot and fry till it splutters and take out from the pot.
  
• Add Grated coconut and fry till it comes to brown color and transfer it to a plate.
  
  
  
  
• Add the small onions and fry it till it cooks.
  
• Let the fried ingredients to cool.
  
• Take 1 tbsp of fried sundakkai and keep it aside since we put this in the curry.
• In the mixer add the remaining sundakkai, fried bengal gram, seasame seeds, coconut, onions and grind it to a fine paste by adding water.
  
• Grind the tomatoes and keep it aside.
  
• Soak tamarind and take extract and keep it aside.
• Heat the same cooking clay pot and add gingelly oil to it.
  
• Allow mustard seeds and urad dhal to temper.
• Add the chopped onions, dry chillies and curry leaves in it.
  
  
  
  
• Add  the fine paste ,
  
  
  
  
  the tomato puree and add required amount of water and allow it to boil.
• Add the tamarind extract and again allow it to boil.
• Heat a kadai and add sambar powder and saute for a second in low flame and add it to the gravy, like wise do for the rest of the powder(cumin powder, coriander powder, chilli powder).
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• While boiling add the fried sundakkai to the boiling curry which we kept aside for the curry.
  
• Add jaggery and put it simmer and wait till the oil floats.
  
  
  
  
• Now our sundakkai vathal kulambu is ready to serve.