sukku kuzhambu recipe | chukku milagu kuzhambu
 
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Serves: 2
Ingredients
To grind:
  • Dry ginger/chukku - finger-sized
  • Pepper - 1 tsp
  • Garlic - 6-8 cloves
To temper:
  • Sesame oil/Nallennai - 2-3 tbsp
  • Mustard seeds - ¼ tsp
  • Curry leaves - few
  • Small onions - 12-15
Tangy ingredients:
  • Tomato - 1
  • Tamarind - gooseberry size ball
Spice powders:
  • Coriander powder - 1 tsp heaped
  • Chilli powder - ½ tsp
  • Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp
  • Salt - ½ tsp heaped
Instructions
  1. Soak a gooseberry-sized tamarind in a cup of hot water for 10 mins. Rinse it well with fingers until it disperses well. Strain the tamarind extract through your fingers and throw away the pulp and seeds.
  2. Take a finger-sized chukku/dry ginger, 6-8 garlic cloves and 1 tsp pepper. Pestle sukku/dry ginger to break it into big pieces.
  3. Use serrated knife to remove the outer skin of chukku/dry ginger. This step is mandatory as sukku skin is not advised to be consumed.
  4. Grind chukku and milagu in dry mixie to powder. Then add garlic cloves with skin.
  5. Grind it well and keep aside. In a kadai, add 2-3 tbsp of sesame oil(Nallennai). Once hot, add ¼ tsp mustard seeds. Once spluttered, add 15 small onions and few curry leaves. Let the stove be in low-medium flame.
  6. Once onions are fried, add ground mix and fry for a minute in low flame.
  7. Add chopped tomato and fry till oil separates.
  8. Add 1 tsp heaped coriander powder, ½ tsp chilli powder and ¼ tsp turmeric powder. Fry for a minute.
  9. Add tamarind extract along with ½ cup water and ½ tsp heaped salt.
  10. Increase the flame to medium-high and close the lid. Let it boil for 10 more mins or until oil oozes on top.
Notes
1.You can add little jaggery at the end and boil for 1 more minute, if you don't like the sukku flavor.
2.If you are using sukku thool/dry ginger powder, add ½ tsp to 1 tsp as per ur liking.
3.Increase pepper and chilli powder if you want more spicy.
4.Add ½ more cup of water if you don't want this thick consistency.
Recipe by My Healthy Kiddo at https://www.myhealthykiddo.com/sukku-kuzhambu-recipe/