Receipe 18: Curry Leaves Thokku (Karuvepalai Thokku)

This dish makes an awesome side dish for curd rice. You can use it with dosas and idlis also mix it with hot rice and ghee with appalam. :)

What you need?

Curry leaves
Tamarind - in a size of lemon..
Gingelly oil
Mustard
Turmeric Powder
Fenugreek powder (Vendiyam)
Asofetida powder
Salt

Le Method:

Wash the curry leaves and let it dry nicely. Soak the tamarind in hot water for sometime. Squeeze it to get the tamarind water. Add the curry leaves to this tamarind water and grind it nicely in a mixie.
Heat about 2 teaspoons of gingelly oil (not sunflower oil) and add the mustard, fenugreek, asofetida, turmeric powder. Add the grounded curry leaves mixture to this and start mixing it slowly. Keep the flame in sim. Make sure you don't burn it. Add the chilli powder (depends on how spicy you want) and salt to taste.. Mix it well and turn off the gas.

Viola!

Note: You can follow the same procedure for making onion/capsicum/tomato thokku.