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Kashur' Zaika: The taste of Kashmiri food |
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Pulusu
Ingredients
- Tamarind - 2 big lemon sized balls
- Onions - 2
- Vegetable (optional) - about 1 cup of bottlegourd or yellow
cucumber or brinjal or cobination of these three.
- Green chillies - 6
- Chilli powder - 1 tsp (adjust according to taste)
- Salt - as required
- Turmeric - 1/2 tsp
- Coriander leaves - few
- Oil - 2 tbsp
- Seasoning - 1 tsp of urad dal, mustard seeds, 1/2 tsp of jeera,
pinch of hing and few curry leaves
Method:
- Soak tamarind for some time and extract the juice from it (about
5 cups juice).
- Slice the onions, it can be thick. Slit the green chillies.
- If using any vegetable, cut it into little big pieces.
- Heat oil in a vessel, add onions, green chillies and fry until
light brown. Add turmeric and saute for one more minute.
- If adding any vegetable add now and fry for 5 minutes.
- Add tamarind extract, some water and allow it to come to boil.
- Add chilli powder and salt.
- Reduce heat allow it to simmer for 20 to 30 minutes.
- Heat oil in a small pan and add seasoning and when mustard seeds
starts to splutter add this to the pulusu. Add chopped coriander
leaves.
- Serve this warm with rice.(along with plain dal)
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