"Pachai Payir Kuzhambu"

Pachai Payir Kuzhambu

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About this Foodie!

"Pachai Payir Kuzhambu", is a traditional South Indian dish made from Green gram/Pachai Payir(in Tamil) which by nature rich in protein and its flavor willbe very good and can be taken all season.

Best side dish with white rice, dosai , idly and taking lime pickle and appalam as side dish for pachai payir kuzhambu rice is the best combination of my taste.

"Pachai Payir Kuzhambu"

Recipe

Ingredients

1. Green gram / Pachai Payir - 1 cup

2. Big Onion - 2 no

3. Tomato - 1 no

4. Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp or to your taste

5. Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

6. Coriander  powder - 2 tbspn

7. Mustard seeds and Ulunthum paruppu - 1/4 tsp each

8. Curry leaves - 6-7 nos

9. Oil and Salt - To your taste

10. Tamarind water (semi thick) - 1/2 cup

11. Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp

12. Garlic -  3 Tooth

13. Green chilly - 2 nos

14. Red chilly - 2 nos

Method

1. In a cooker add 1 tsp oil , pachai payir, chopped onion , chopped tomato , chilly powder , turmeric powder , coriander powder, garlic , green chillies and salt and pour some water ( 3/4 cup ) and allow to pressure cook for 4-5 whistles.

2. Then open the cooker after whistle settles down and add tamarind water and cook for sometime till the kuzhambu gets boiled up (in tamil : Kothikavaikavum).

3. While the kuzhambu is getting boiled up , side by side in a frying pan saute mustard seeds, uluntham paruppu , cumin seeds, red chilly and curry leaves and add them to the boiling kuzhambu in open cooker and finish your cooking and serve hot.

Try it and you will love it!

Happy Foodie!!!