Kathirkai Ennai kozhambu

This recipe serves 2.

Ingredients:

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• Small purple brinjals - 6
• Onion - 1 large
• turmeric powder - a pinch
• jaggery - 1 tablespoon
• Salt - to taste
• curry leaves - 2 sprigs
• Oil - 5 tablespoon
• Tamarind juice - extracted from a ball of diameter,4 cm

To grind:

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• Coriander seeds - 2 tablespoon
• Urad dal - 11/2 tablespoon
• Jeera - 1 teaspoon
• Peppercorns - 5
• Red chillies - 4
• Fenugreek seeds - 1/4 tablespoon
• Pottu kadalai/Roasted gram - 1 tablespoon

Heat a teaspoon of oil in a kadai and roast the above ingredients till they turn brown.Saute half of chopped onions also till it turns pink.Set aside to cool.

Grind the above roasted contents to a coarse powder in a mixer.(as shown below).

Method:

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• Wash brinjals well and slit open them into four pieces retaining the stem .
• Stuff in the powdered masala.(Keep some masala aside for gravy)
• Heat rest of oil in a kadai,add mustard seeds and curry leaves and other half onion.
• When it splutters,add stuffed brinjals and cook covered till they become tender.

• Add tamarind juice,turmeric powder,jaggery,salt and cook covered till brinjals are cooked.(Take care not to break the brinjals)
• Add the remaining powdered masala and allow to boil.

Yummy Ennai kathirikai kozhambu is ready.Seve hot with rice and potato fry/ papad with a drop of ghee.