SIMPLE VATHAL KULAMBU

Ingredients:
1 tbs kulambu podi
50 grms tamarind soaked in 1 cup of water
2 shallots sliced
5 pips garlic sliced
2 dried red chillies broken into pieces
¼ tsp mustard seeds
¼ tsp fenugreek seeds
1 tsp channa dal
1 sprig curry leaves
1 tbs oil
little vellam (optional)
Little vathals like sundakai, kothavarangkai, vendi.
Salt to taste

Method:
Soak the tamarind in the water.
Squeeze the juice and keep aside.
Wash the vathals and keep aside.

Heat a pot with the oil, add in the mustard seeds,
fenugreek seeds, and channa dal.
After it splutters, add in the sliced onions, garlic,
broken chillies and the washed vathals.
Sauté well till the onions turn lightly brown.

Now add in the tamarind juice , kulambu podi, vellam and salt.
Let it simmer and boil till oil seperates.
Add in the curry leaves and remove.
Roasted appalam is a good combination for this kulambu.