Vatha kozhambu is my all time favorite dish. It is a tradiontional mouth watering recipe across south India. In this post, provided the step by step pictures to prepare tasty vatha kozhambu.Try this and enjoy. This dish is good to eat with rice even dosa/idly.

Ingredients

• Tamarind – Big lemon Size
• Sunda vathal – few(15 to 20)
• Small onions/shallots – 15
• Fenugreek – 1/2 tsp
• Sesame oil – 4 to 5 tsp
• Palm jaggery/jaggery - a small piece(For size check the picture given below)
• Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
• Salt as per taste

To Roast and Grind

• Coriander seeds – 3 tsp
• Black pepper – 2 tsp
• Cumin seed – 3 tsp
• Red chili – 7 to 8
• Bengal gram/kadalai paruppu – 2 tsp
• Toor dal – 2 tsp

Preparation Method

1.Soak tamarind in 2 cups of water.Remove the peel of onions and keep it aside.

2.Roast all the things(Mentioned below “To roast and Grind”) one by one,till it color changes.Add slightly water to grind like a paste.

3.Heat 4 tsp of oil(sesame oil) in a pan.Add fenugreek seeds,sunda vathal first,then add onions.Saute it well,till onion turns to pink color.

4.Extract the tamarind water in a vessel.To this tamarind juice add sufficient salt and ground paste.Mix it well without lumps.Pour this into the kadai.
 
5.Allow to boil for 5 min.Then add a piece of  palm jaggery/jaggery (karrupatti/vellam) into it.

6.Let it allow to boil till the oil leaves the sides of the pan (or the gravy thickens.).Heat oil in a pan,add mustard seeds.When it spluttered,add this into the kozhambu.
 
7.Now Tasty vathakozhambu is ready to taste.Serve it with rice and appalam.

Tips
1.Add 1 more tsp of sesame oil at the end of the time(optional).
2.You may add garlic cloves instead of sunda vathal.

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