Vengaya Kara Kuzhambu | Easy Bachelors Kuzhambu Recipe

This recipe is sinfully easy to make. You don't want to spend long time in kitchen. It only takes 10 minutes to cook this. And you don't want to be nearby all the time. It is seriously very very easy to make. The only hardest part in this dish is peeling the skin of onion.

I recommend bachelors to bookmark this recipe. It requires very less ingredients. You can skip even dry chillies, fenugreek and make it even more simpler. I hope you will try this at home. Here goes the recipe.

Vengaya Kara Kuzhambu

Recipe Cuisine: South Indian | Recipe Category: Kuzhambu
Prep Time: 5 mins | Cooking Time: 15 mins | Serves: 3 to 4

Ingredients:

Shallots / Small Onion - 20

Tamarind - small lemon sized

Sambar powder - 3 tblspn

Jaggery - 1 tsp

Red Chilli - 1(optional)

Salt - as needed

To Temper:

Musard seeds - 1 tsp

Channa dal - 1 tsp

Curry leaves - a sprig

Fenugreek - 1/4 tsp(optional)

Gingelly oil / Nallenai - 2tblspn

Method:

Soak tamarind in warm water and extract its juice. Peel the skin of onions and keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. When it starts to splutter, add fenugreek(optional), channa dal.

Add in onions, sauté for 2mins until it becomes soft.

Add sambar powder and curry leaves. Sauté for few seconds.

Then, add in tamarind extract,salt and 2 cups of water.

Close the lid and cook for 10-15mins at medium heat. When the oil separates and remove from heat.

Serve hot with rice and pappad. Enjoy!

Note:

• Adding fenugreek and red chilli is optional. You can skip this too.
• If you want it to be thick add a tsp of rice flour.
• If you do not have jaggery, you can add sugar.

Pictorial:

Keep all your ingredients ready

Soak tamarind in warm water and extract its juice

Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds

When it begins to crackle, add fenugreek, channa dal and curry leaves. Saute for 30 seconds

Add onion and red chillies

Saute until onion becomes soft

Add sambar powder

Saute for 15 to 30 seconds

Now add the tamarind extract and enough water

Add jaggery and salt

Close the lid and cook for 15 mins over medium heat and remove from flame

Venkaya Kara Kuzhambu ready!