KATHIRIKAI VATHAL KULAMBU
October 28, 2020KATHIRIKAI VATHAL KULAMBU
Brinjal contains lots of vitamins and minerals, helps with digestion, improves heart health, prevents cancer, improves bone health, prevents anemia, and also increases brain functions. That's nice info about a vegetable which is always available for us😃.
Brinjal is always tasty to eat as fresh as possible there is no surprise in it, but even the vaththal(Dried Brinjal) is so very tasty. This is one of the major things I learned from the people where I am living in, especially from the garden people. That is when they have lots of harvest from their garden they do preserve that either, in a form of pickle or dry them up and store them, which can be used for the whole year. Which means nothing is wasted just because it was excess.
This is something I learned from them and applied during this lockdown period. Here we don't have the home delivery option from the Indian grocery store, so to avoid the frequency of visiting stores in person we started to get vegetables and groceries in bulk. The grocery will be fine but vegetables won't stay fresh for long right, then we started freezing them especially Brinjal, Cauliflower, Coconut, Peas, and Drumstick all did work well for me.
And then I thought like if something like this was also available for our farmers, whose life is depending on the sale of their vegetables or produce they won't need to go through all the struggle they are currently going through. I think, maybe the next generation farmers will find the perfect way to survive and make agriculture a successful business for them and to the consumers, not the middle man.
Just to support this concept, I would love to share this recipe with you guys. Talking of this recipe, it is really simple and the ingredients are very basic nothing fancy but the taste will be too good. The aroma while roasting brinjal in oil is heavenly which makes this recipe unique. This is our favorite recipe and the best combination with this kulambu is thuvayal or simply raw onion would be excellent. And the recipe is here,
INGREDIENTS:
Preparation Time: 5mins.
Cooking Time: 20mins.
Serves: 2.
1. Kaththari vaththal -50gm.
2. Tomato -1no.
3. Tamarind -1lemon size.
4. Sambar Powder -2spoon.
5. Turmeric Powder -1/4spoon.
6. Jaggery -1/4spoon.
7. Gingelly Oil -2spoon.
8. Mustard -1/2spoon.
9. Toor Dhal -1/4spoon.
10. Methi Seeds -1/4spoon.
11. Curry Leaves -a few.
METHOD:
1. In a Kadai, add oil then add Kaththari vaththal and roast for a minute or two. Then transfer them to a plate.
2. To the same Kadai add oil once the oil is hot add mustard, toor dhal, and a few methi seeds.
3. Then add cut tomatoes and fry for a minute then add some turmeric and sambar powder.
4. After that add the roasted vaththal and the tamarind extract along with the required salt.
5. Once the kulambu is started to boiling add jaggery. Adding jaggery will help to enhance the overall taste and color.
6. Now keep the stove at low to medium flame, 5 - 7mins later once everything gets together add a spoon full of raw gingelly oil. It will give an excellent taste while eating with the rice.
7. And finally once you see oil on top add a few curry leaves to the recipe and switch it off, then close it with a lid.
8. That's it our simple yet delicious Kaththari vaththal kulambu is ready, serve it with some rice and thuvayal or raw onions.
METHOD WITH PICTURES:
1. In a Kadai, add oil then add Kaththari vaththal and roast for a minute or two. Then transfer them to a plate.
2. To the same Kadai add oil once the oil is hot add mustard, toor dhal, and a few methi seeds.
3. Then add cut tomatoes and fry for a minute then add some turmeric and sambar powder.
4. After that add the roasted vaththal and the tamarind extract along with the required salt.
5. Once the kulambu is started to boiling add jaggery. Adding jaggery will help to enhance the overall taste and color.
6. Now keep the stove at low to medium flame, 5 - 7mins later once everything gets together add a spoon full of raw gingelly oil. It will give an excellent taste while eating with the rice.
7. And finally once you see oil on top add a few curry leaves to the recipe and switch it off, then close it with a lid.
8. That's it our simple yet delicious Kaththari vaththal kulambu is ready, serve it with some rice and thuvayal or raw onions.
NOTE:
1. Using the same recipe you can make any kind of Vaththal kulambu.
2. As I mentioned before here I used a bit of jaggery just to enhance the overall taste and color of the recipe. It's optional so you can completely ignore it.
3. And adding curry leaves at the end will give a beautiful aroma to the recipe.
Hope you guys, love this recipe and the idea of preserving vegetables effectively. And please share your thoughts with me in the comment section below. And always, "Stay Positive and Keep Smiling😀".
Here is my Paruppu Thogayal recipe 👍.
2 comments
Very Thoughtful Post & Yummy Recipe you have here darlz! 💕👍🏽
ReplyDeleteThank u Dear 😍
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