This is an easy to prepare dish during busy days. This hardly takes less than 10 minutes and is really cost effective.

Ingredients:

1 minced shallots (small onions) -4

2 green pepper (green chilly) -4

3 mustard seeds - half tsp

4 jeera - 1/4 tsp

5 fenugreek seeds - 1/4 tsp

6 curry leaves - 1 strip

7 tamarind juice - 2 cups

8 salt - as needed

Preparing the tamarind juice is the most important part during preparation. Take 1 table spoon of tamarind and mix well in pure water.  Drain the tamarind juice using a sieve. This avoids tamarind pieces in curry.

Preparation:

In a tawa heat 2 tsp coconut oil. Add ingredients 3,4,5. Once mustard pops, add 1,2 and 6. Stir well till onion is light brown. Add tamarind juice to this mixture. Allow boil and add salt.

This curry goes well with rice. And a preferred side dish is dry fish roasted in coconut oil ( preferably nangi meen ).

This is a very popular dish in palakkad villages and highly recommended during karkedaka maasam.

If you see a mallu saying - mulakuvarutha puli kooti unditt moochi chotil mokaru kazhuki - you can easily identify him as a palakkadan guy/gal 😊

So friends enjoy this mulakku varutha puli.



~Radhika ...