Saturday 27 February 2016

KOVAKKA THOKKU

I am a fan of pickle.  varieties of pickles I try even though I know that eating too much of pickle is harmful to our health which increases acidity due to the stressful life we are leading now a days.  But sometime, we need the pickle as accompaniment as pickle is part of our Indian food.

We make pickles usually with Mango, Lime, Wild lime, gooseberry etc.  Now a days, I have started trying the pickles with vegetables and fruits.

I have already posted one kovakkai pickle but this one is thokku in a different form. This pickle was appreciated by my colleagues and friends as they liked it very much.


Kovakkai thokku

video:


Let us look at the recipe now:

Total time taken: 1 hour.

Ingredients:

100 gms kovakka
1-2 tsp red chilli powder (increase/decrease  the chilli powder as per your requirement.)
1 small lemon size tamarind ball
sesame seed oil  1/2 cup to 3/4 cup
salt
oinion 1
garlic cloves - 5-6

turmeric powder

Tempering:

hing powder
few curry leaves.
1 tsp mustard seeds.

Method:

1.  wash and trim the ends of the kovakkai.
2.  peel the onion and garlic and  put in mixer along with kovakkai to grind to a smooth paste.
3.  Heat 1/2 cup oil in kadai.  add the mustard seeds, when splutters add curry leaves and hing powder.
4.  Add the kovakkai paste in it and cook till it leaves the sides of the kadai.
5.  Soak the tamarind in one cup  hot water and extract pulp
5.  Add the tamarind pulp, salt, turmeric powder and cook again till it starts leaving the sides of the kadai.  Add the remaining oil and mix well, allow to cool.
6.  add the chilli powder, mix well.
7.  Put in airtight container can refrigerate.

How to serve:

serve along with dosa, idli, molagootal rice, curd rice, dal rice or paratha varieties.

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few links are below of various pickles posted:

bilimbi
kanda kairi
kodukkapuli
instant mango pickle
vadu mangai
kovakkai
cauliflower
apple methi sprouts
arinellikka
hot and sweet gooseberry
gooseberry
instant gooseberry
lotus stem
avakkai
veppilakkatti
jamun
manga inji
karvanda
bitter gourd
chikoo
instant sweelime 
lemon 
lemon sweet version
ambedachi
papaya thokku
amla wafer
peanut mango pickle
bamboo shoot
pears
bitter gourd
puli inji
karvanda

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