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Healthy Food Recipes - Green Sundakkai Kara Kuzhambu (Turkey berry)

Posted on: 24/Dec/2014 12:31:42 PM
Ingredients:
  • Sundakkai (Turkey Berry) – 1 cup
  • Onion – 2 nos
  • Tomato – 2 nos
  • Garlic – 10 nos
  • Curry Leaves – a few
  • Cooking oil – 5 spoons
  • Cumin Seeds – ½ spoon
  • Mustard Seeds – ½ spoon
  • Fenugreek – ½ spoon
  • Asafoetida – a pinch
  • Tamarind – a small lemon size
  •  Turmeric Powder – ½ spoon
  • Sambar Powder – 1 ½ spoon
  • Salt – To taste
Method:
  1. Wash the turkey berry thoroughly. Either chop the sundakkai into half or put the sundakkai in a plastic bag close it and give a crush a little with a ladle. Keep the chopped sundakkai in a bowl of water, else its colour will turn black.


  2. Finely chop both the onion and tomatoes.
  3. Heat 3 spoons of oil in a kadai, add the mustard seeds, cumin seeds, and fenugreek and let them splutter. 


  4. Now add the curry leaves, chopped onion and garlic and a pinch of asafoetida and sauté well till the onion colour changes golden brown. 
  5. Now add the chopped tomato and cook till it gets mashed well and raw smell leaves. 
  6. Add the crushed sundakkai, salt, sambar powder and turmeric powder and sauté for 2mins. 


  7. Add required quantity of water and close the lid.
  8. Let it boil for about 5 minutes and now add the tamarind juice to it.
  9. At some time, you will notice the floating of oil on top of the kuzambhu and it is the time you switch off the flame and remove it in a serving bowl.



  10. This green sundakkai Kara kuzambhu will be great with the steam rice! Enjoy its tangy taste!


Note:
  • If you want the Kara Kuzambhu in a thicker consistency, once you add the tamarind juice, just grind a piece of coconut and add it to the dish and boil it for some time.
  • Else, just mix 1 spoon of rice flour and mix it with water and add it to the kuzambhu, it will give thicker consistency.
  • Sundakkai has the potent to treat paralysis.
  • Sundakkai is rich in calcium, and thus it aids in strengthening the bones.
  • It helps in slaying the germs in the body.
  • Incorporate Sundakkai at least once in a week, it helps in lowering blood sugar level considerably.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath

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