Inji Curry/ Puli Inji

Ingredients:

3 pieces of ginger/ 1 cup fresh ginger chopped
tamarind, size of a lemon
3 tsp coriander powder
2 tsp chilli powder
2-3 tbsp jaggery grated or as needed
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
curry leaves
salt
coconut oil

Preparation:

  1. Soak the tamarind in water (about 1 cup), extract its juice and keep it aside.
  2. Peel and cut ginger into round slices and fry it in the oil till brown.
  3. Crush the fried ginger pieces in a mixer. Then add chilli powder ,coriander powder and 1 tbsp water to this crushed ginger and grind well. Keep it aside.
  4. In the same pan used for frying ginger, add little oil and splutter mustard seeds and curry leaves.
  5. Add ground ginger paste, tamarind juice and salt and mix well. Allow it to boil.
  6. When it starts to thicken, add grated jaggery and mix well. Cook for few more minutes stirring in between and remove from fire…..Serve with rice….

Sending to Sharan’s Onam Grand Feast Event

 

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  1. Puli inji is one of my favorites and I made it for the first time this Onam… but I didn't use coriander powder, I'm sure it makes a whole lot of difference to the taste, next time I'll try this to see which one I like more… the pic looks really tempting 🙂

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