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121. Vathal Dal Curry

Ingredients :

Tamarind- 1½ palam
Black Gram- ½ palam
Cleaned Sesame Seeds- ½ palam
Pepper- ½ palam
Red Chillies- ⅛ palam
Grated Coconut- ¼ palam
Salt- ¾ palam
Vathal- ½ palam
Ghee- 1½ palam
Bengal Gram Flour- 1 palam

For Seasoning :

Ghee- ½ palam
Red Chillies- ⅛ palam
Mustard Seeds- ¼ palam
Black Gram- ¼ palam
Asafoetida- 2 ku.a
  • 1. Vathals can be done with brinjal, bitter gourd, colocasia, clustered beans, turkey berry, black nightshade (wonder cherry) can be used.
  • 2. Dissolve tamarind in ½ padi water in a coated vessel and remove the seeds.
  • 3. Fry separately in ghee or oil black gram, cleaned sesame seed, pepper, chillies, grated coconut. Mix this with the tamarind pulp and keep it on fire and boil it.
  • 4. Boil 2 ladleful of pigeon pea and salt to the boiling mixture. Add any type of vathal and fry it in ghee and add it to the boiling curry.
  • 5. Press and stir it with a heavy ladle. Mix water ¼ padi to bengal gram flour and put it in the curry.
  • 6. After it boils once, refer to seasoning method 22nd to season the dish.