Thenga Kozhambu

Recipe Ingredients

• 1cup of grated coconut
• 1 tspoon of fenugreek
• 5-6 red chillies
• lemon size tamarind
• salt to taste and asafetida

• Take the tamarind and squeeze it in 500 ml of water. 
• Add salt, asafetida and any veg (mostly okra, chowchow or drumstick) and boil. 
• Take pan and fry fenugreek and red chillies in one spoon of oil. 
• Grind this with coconut in mixie using water. 
• Add this paste to the boiling mixture. 
• Cook till the veg is done. 
• If the kozhambu is too watery take a spoon of rice flour and make a paste using little water and add this to kozhambu and boil for 5 mts. 
• Season it with mustard seeds.