Pulicha keerai thokku/ Gongura thokku

Pulicha keerai thokku - One of my favourite recipe and can refrigerate for a couple of weeks.

Ingredients:

   Pulicha keerai thokku                               
      Cooking Time : 20 mins

• Pulicha keerai/ Gongura - 2 bunch
• Green chilly - 1
• Small onion - 15
• Garlic - 6
• Tamarind - 1 tbsp
• Sambar powder - 3/4 tsp (Optional)
• Gingelly oil 
• Salt to taste
• Vengaya vadagam - for tempering

     For roasting & grinding:

• Coriander seeds - 1 tbsp
• Urad dal - 1/2 tbsp
• Fenugreek seeds - 1/4 tsp
• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Red chilly - 8 to 10

Cooking Instruction:

• Pressure cook keerai along with green chilly for 3 whistles.

• Heat a tsp of oil in a pan, add all the ingredients mentioned for roasting & grinding. Roast till golden brown and add tamarind at last, cool it completely and grind to coarse powder. Along with that add the cooked keerai and pulse it.

• Heat oil in a pan, add vadagam or simply add mustard seeds, curry leaves, asafoetida and allow it to splutter. Then add onions and garlic and saute till it turn slight brown. Now add sambar powder (this is optional as my chilly is less spice, i added sambar powder)

• Add the ground paste, salt and cook till the oil oozes out. Inorder to store for more days add more oil.

• Serve with hot rice and gingelly oil.