Name: Puli Milagai Oorukai :Tamarind Green Chilli Pickle
Prep time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: 15 nos Washed & chopped green chillies : 10; Cleaned Tamarind : 2 medium lemon size / paste; Turmeric powder : 1 tsp; Jaggery ( crushed ) : ¼ to ½ cup or more; Fenugreek seeds : 2 tsp; Asafoetida : 2 tsp or cake 5 gm (Solid preferred); Salt : to taste; Mustard : 1 tsp (for tempering); 3 tsp Cooking oil : 2

Puli Milagai Oorukai :Tamarind Green Chilli Pickle

By HEMALAKSHMAN

• August 20, 2014

Puli Milagai Oorukai :Tamarind Green Chilli Pickle

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Prep Time 25

Total Time 25

Cuisine Tamil

Servings people

Ingredients

15 nos Washed & chopped green chillies : 10
Cleaned Tamarind : 2 medium lemon size / paste
Turmeric powder : 1 tsp
Jaggery ( crushed ) : ¼ to ½ cup or more
Fenugreek seeds : 2 tsp
Asafoetida : 2 tsp or cake 5 gm (Solid preferred)
Salt : to taste
Mustard : 1 tsp (for tempering)
3 tsp Cooking oil : 2

Instructions

Soak tamarind in a small quantity of hot water.
Add ½ cup of water to it, crush well and squeeze the essence out. Repeat this process 2 or 3 times more.
Fry mustard in oil on a medium fire. As the spluttering is about to subside add fenugreek.
When the spluttering subsides add asafoetida and turmeric followed shortly by green chilli.
Sauté for a while and add tamarind essence [or paste with 1 cup of water].
Add salt [also asafoetida and turmeric if not used in the tempering] and allow it to simmer on a low fire.
Add jaggery and cook stirring at intervals.
When it attains a semisolid consistency, remove from heat, allow it to cool and store in a clean, dry container.
Serve with chapatthi, poori and the like or with dal - rice, curd rice or rice mixed with mulaku koottal of Kerala.