Chettinadu Masala Kuzhambu
Chettinadu Kuzhambu is always very very tasty especially their masala kuzhambu or kara kuzhambu. This can be had with hot rice and gingely oil and ghee. Ingredients: Small Onions- 18 nos or 1/4 kg Raddish or chowchow or drumstick or brinjal (numbers depending upon the quantity of veggies one need for a family of four) Tamarind Paste - 2 tbsp Red Chillies - 4 nos Vathakozhambu powder - 2 tbsp Gingely Oil - 1/4 cup Salt to taste Coconut grated - 1/4 cup Fennel Seeds (sombu) - 1 tsp Onion big - 1 Tomato - 1 Garlic pods - 6 nos Curry leaves - a handful Bay leaf - 1 no Cinnamon sticks - 2 nos Method : Heat 1/4 of the oil and fry big onion first in it then a hand ful of small onions. Add the tomatoes and 4 of the garlic pods and saute them. Remove from flame and add coconut, 1/2 of the fennel seeds, curry leaves and grind them to a fine paste. Heat half of the remaining oil in a hard bottom pan and add bayleaf, fennel seeds and cinnamon. Cut the small onions into 1/4