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Thursday, 18 July 2013

PAGARKAI KUZHAMBU

Pagarkai acts as a medcine for diabetics. It can be taken in any form like powder,poriyal,fry and kuzhambu. We use to do weekly once pagarkai in our cooking.
INGREDIENTS 
Small Pagarkai-8 nos 
Onion-1 no
Tomato-1 no 
Garlic-5 no
Tamrand-1 lemon size 
Coconut grated-1/4cup

Sombu-1/2 tspn 
Turemric pow-1/2 tspn 
Chillie pow-1/2spn 
Salt to taste 
Curry leaves -little 
TO TEMPER 
Refined oil-5 tspn 
Vadagam-1tspn 
METHOD
1)Grind the coconut with sombu well. 
2)Cut pagarkai and garlic as half,finely chop the onion and tomato into cubes.
3)Pour oil in a kadai and temper  with vadagam,add onion,pagarkai,garlic.tomato and fry. 

4)Add the turmeric,chillie powder and fry. 
5)Put the coconut gravy.
6) Pour the extracted tamarind juice and add water salt. 
7) Cook well for 15 min. The spicy aroma and the colour will indicate that the pagarkai kuzhambu is ready  to serve with hot rice,any porriyal and pappad.


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