Recipe: To Try At Home Murungakkai Puli Kulambu | Drumstick Tamarind Curry

Recipe: To Try At Home Murungakkai Puli Kulambu | Drumstick Tamarind Curry Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Murungakkai Puli Kulambu | Drumstick Tamarind Curry. Recipe for Spicy South Indian Tamlinadu Style Murungakkai Kara Puli Kuzhambu. When I was young, me and my friends would never play near a drumstick tree. The Murungakkai Puli Kuzhambu Recipe is a traditional South Indian recipe that is essentially a tamarind curry that is cooked with spices like sambar powder and combined with vegetables like drumsticks and baby onions (shallots).

My mum is here visiting us for a little holiday, and K has some requests for dishes that I never make LOL.

This is one of them, he wanted me to blog about this because it will also be a reference for me if he asks me to cook.

Drumstick Puli Kulambu is a tangy tamarind based South Indian gravy.

You can cook Murungakkai Puli Kulambu | Drumstick Tamarind Curry using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Murungakkai Puli Kulambu | Drumstick Tamarind Curry

1. Prepare of Onion sliced.

2. You need of garlic.

3. Prepare of Tomatoes chopped.

4. Prepare of chillie green.

5. It’s of Chillie powder.

6. It’s of Coriander Powder.

7. You need of Turmeric powder.

8. It’s of tamarind of thick juice (more or less depending on taste).

9. You need of Mustard seeds of.

10. Prepare of fenugreek of.

11. It’s of cumin of powder.

12. It’s of curry leaves of.

Puli Kulambu can be made using a single or a combination of vegetables that is served with rice for lunch.

My mom also makes Tirunelveli style murungakkai puli kulambu but its with freshly ground spices.

For this no grind recipe, sambar powder or vatha kuzhambu powder is the major ingredient.

So anyone can make it quickly and easily.

Murungakkai Puli Kulambu | Drumstick Tamarind Curry instructions

1. Drumsticks - a whole packet of frozen drumstick (fresh is better, but it wasnt sold here).

2. Freshly chopped Coriander leaves for garnish.

3. 2 tbsp of coconut milk.

4. Tbsps of Sesame Oil.

5. Add the mustard seeds to some heated sesame oil. When the mustard seeds start sputtering, add the fenugreek, onion, garlic, curry leaves and the green chillies.

6. After a couple of minutes, add the drumsticks. Saute for a few minutes and add the spice powders: turmeric, chillie and coriander powder. Give it a good stir and allow it to cook and let the spices cook and become fragrant.

7. Next add the tomatoes, and about 1/2 cup of water and let it cook. Once the drumsticks have cooked, add the tamarind juice.

8. Season with salt if needed, and reduce the heat to low. Add the coconut milk, the cumin powder, mix and remove from the heat.  Garnish with some coriander leaves.

9. Serve this along with some freshly made white rice.

This kuzhambu recipe would be ideal for bachelors and working women to whip up a quick gravy for rice.

Heat Oil in a pan and add cumin seeds, urad dal and channa dhal.

When Channa dal turns golden colour, add red chillies, curry leaves and shallots.

Fry till shallots turn translucent Murungakkai Puli kulambu I think this is a kind of 'kara-kulambu' or spicy curry prepared in Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, India.

I learnt this recipe from my mom.we had a very large drumstick tree in our backyard and my mom used to present cartloads of drumsticks to whoever asked her.