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Pepper Curry

Spiced up South Indian curry that is delicious with plain steamed rice. It is also ideal when one has cold or fever linked with cold.
Servings: 6
Description
Spiced up South Indian curry that is delicious with plain steamed rice. It is also ideal when one has cold or fever linked with cold.
Ingredients
  • one lime size ball of tamarind
  • 1 tsp or to taste red chilli powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp coriander (dhania powder)
  • 1/2 tsp turmeric (haldi powder)
  • 2 tsp oil
    • To grind
  • 2 tsp whole black peppercorns
  • 1 tbsp coriander (dhania seeds)
  • 1 tbsp red gram (tuvar dal)
  • 1 medium onion
  • 1 big tomato
  • 4 curry leaves
  • 1/2 tsp oil
    • To temper
  • 1 1/2 tsp oil
  • 1/2 tsp mustard (rai seeds)
  • 1/2 tsp cumin (jeera seeds)
  • 3 fenugreek (methi seeds)
  • 1/2 tsp split deskinned black gram (urad dal)
  • 12 curry leaves
  • 1 medium onion (chopped)
  • 2 tsp jaggery (gur)
  • salt to taste
Instructions
  1. 1
    1. Soak tamarind in warm water for sometime. Squeeze pulp and extract juice. Strain and mix tamarind extract with chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder. Set aside.
  2. 2
    2. Heat 1/2 tsp oil and fry ingredients in the order listed under 'To grind'. Then cool and grind to a paste. Add paste to tamarind mixture.
  3. 3
    3. To temper, heat oil. Add mustard, cumin, black gram, fenugreek, curry leaves. Let splutter.
  4. 4
    Add onions and fry till golden.
  5. 5
    4. Add the tamarind+paste misture. Stir and cook till it begins to simmer.
  6. 6
    Add jaggery, salt. Let curry simmer for 5 mins. Remove from heat and serve hot.
Note
You can replace tamarind piece with 2 to 2 1/2 tsp readymade tamarind paste.
Read it online: https://prathiruchi.com/recipe/pepper-curry/