Anitha Jayaraman

Mom makes this wonderful combination of food together wiht Pudhina Chutney. I am a strict follower of my mom trying to match food accordingly.

More Kuzhambu

Required Items – 2 cups of curd, salt, 4 green chillies,  1/4 tsp cumin seeds,  1/2 tsp toor dhal,  1/2 tsp chenna dhal, 1/2 tsp rice, 1/4 cup grated coconut, curry leaves and some suitable vegetable.

• Soak all of the dhal & rice for 15mins.
• Grind the soaked items together with green chillies, cumin, coconut and curry leaves using a mixie.
• Dilute the curd and whip it to change to butter milk.
• Mix the buttermilk with the mixture and also salt. Start cooking this on the stove.
• After it boils, season with mustard seeds, red chillies, curry leaves. Add coriander leaves at the end.
• With this you can also add a vegetable. I boiled few potatoes and added to it while cooking. If you prefer to add eggplant(brinjal) or okra(ladies-finger), fry them in oil and then add to boil.

Potato curry

Required Items – potatoes, onions, tomatoes, seasoning items, chillie powder and salt

• Cut onions and tomoatoes to tiny slices
• Season the oil with mustard seeds.
• Add the cut onions and fry them until its light brown.
• Add the cut tomatoes and fry them to a gravy
• Add chillie powder & salt. Fry them without adding water first.
• Now add water little by little and make a gravy mixture.
• Add the boiled cut potatoes to this and mix them thoroughly with the gravy.