Night Kulambu ( simple paruppu kolambu )

Whenever we went to shopping or function and came back home really tired amma used to make Night kulambu . I seriously donno how to named it Night kulambhu , but yea ... Its been one of my fav

Night Kulambu ( simple paruppu kolambu )

Ingredients:
Toor Dhal - 2 cups
Tomato – 1
Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
tamarind – sufficiently big lemon size
green chillies – 5 (small)
Oil
Salt to taste

Tempering :
garlic - 6 pods
pepper corns – 2
jeera – 2 tsp
kadugu – 2 tsp
curry leaves – 1 strand

Garnish : coriander leaves

Method :
1. In a pressure cooker put 2 cups of toor dhal , with 5 cups of water , turmeric powder , oil 2 tsp, chopped tomato , tamrind ( put it as it is , don’t try to extract the pulp or anything ), whole green chillies (do not chop), salt. Leave it for 3 whistles
2. Take the matthu ( kadaira kuchi ) I don’t know what they call exactly and nalla kadaiyavum so that all the tamarind and green chillies gets into the kolambhu
3. Do the thallippu with chopped garlic , peppercorns , jeeragam , kadugu and curry leaves.
4. Serve with rice or sukka rotti.

PS: If u do not wanna put the onions raw u could fry with oil before pressure cooking it.

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NithiShri