Recipe - Onion Vetha Kozhambu

Lemonsize tamarind;
soaked in 1 cup water
Pearl onions/shallots;peeled
2 Dried red chilli pods
1 One half teaspoon Sambar powder
1 One half teaspoon Rice flour; mixed with a
little water for thickening
Salt; to taste
Mustard (seasoning)
Chana dal (seasoning)
Curry leaves (seasoning)
1 pn Hing
2 tablespoon Oil

Warm oil. Season with mustard , chana dal and curry powder. Saut‚ peeled
onions till translucent. Add squeezed out extract of tamarind. Throw the
sambar powder, salt and hing in. Let simmer till onions are cooked. Add
dissolved rice flour water for thickening. Stir and wait till it simmers
again a couple of minutes. Remove.

Variations:

Tomatoes with chick peas makes a delicious vatha kozhambu. Add some slit
green chillies if you would like to spike it up. Other suggestions are
minced sweet potato, minced butternut squash, daikon (Chinese radish),
drumsticks (available fresh in Indian stores or canned, precooked) all on
their own.

U15297@uicvm.bitnet (Shyamala Parameswaran)

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