Onion Vetha Kozhambu

Recipe Ingredients

		Lemon-size tamarind - soaked in 1 cup wate
		Pearl onions/shallots - peeled
2		Dried red chile pods
1 1/2 teaspoons	7.5ml	Sambar powder
1 1/2 teaspoons	7.5ml	Rice flour - mixed with a
		Water for thickening
		Salt - to taste
		Mustard - (seasoning)
		Chana dal - (seasoning)
		Curry leaves - (seasoning)
1		Hing
2 tablespoons	30ml	Oil

Recipe Instructions

Warm oil. Season with mustard , chana dal and curry powder. Saute peeled onions till translucent. Add squeezed out extract of tamarind.

Throw the sambar powder, salt and hing in. Let simmer till onions are cooked. Add dissolved rice flour water for thickening. Stir and wait till it simmers again a couple of minutes. Remove.

Variations:

Tomatoes with chick peas makes a delicious vatha kozhambu. Add some slit green chilees if you would like to spike it up. Other suggestions are diced sweet potato, diced butternut squash, daikon (Chinese radish), drumsticks (available fresh in Indian stores or canned, pre-cooked) all on their own.

Source:
Shyamala Parameswaran

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