Curry leaves thogayal, an easy to make condiment using curry leaves, coconut, chilies and tamarind. This beautiful green chutney pairs well with any South-Indian breakfast and also with rice.
Curry leaves, known as karuvepillai in tamil is the most neglected green in Indian cuisine. We use it while seasoning the dishes, but when it lands on our plate, it is immediately picked and kept aside.
Both my kids make faces when they get curry leaves or coriander leaves in their plate. I grind curry leaves into rasam, like this Tomato-Garlic rasam or add them to my spice powders, like this curry podi, so curry leaves get into my kids usual diet.
This curry leaves thogayal, is yet another way to enjoy these greens. The addition of coconut and tamarind gives a wonderful flavor to the condiment.
Curry leaves thogayal
Equipment
- Indian mixie or any heavy blender
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups curry leaves, only leaves cleaned
- 5-6 nos red chilies
- ¼ cup freshly grated coconut or frozen
- 2 tsp corinader seeds
- 1 tbsp chana dal
- 1 tablespoon urad dal
- 1 teaspoon salt or to taste
- ½ teaspoon oil any vegetable oil
- marble sized tamarind strings and seeds removed
Tempering (optional)
- 1 teaspoon oil
- ¼ teaspoon mustard seeds kadugu
- ½ teaspoon urad dal
Instructions
- In a kadai, heat oil, add chana dal, urad daland chilies, roast until golden brown. Once the dal is browned, add curryleaves and saute until the leaves wilt.
- Remove it from the stove, let it cool completely. Take this in a mixer, add tamarind, coconut and salt. Grind it to a smooth chutney using ¼ cup water.
- Remove the chutney to a clean bowl, add tadka of mustard seeds urad dal if needed, Serve it along idly/dosa.
Disclaimer
I m not a Doctor or a Nutritionist The Nutrition information provided above comes from the plugin and is only an estimate.
I paired this curry leaves thogayal with Watermelon rind dosa. You can also pair it with idly.
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Srividhya
Love the chutney. As I mentioned in veenas blog love this with rice and tiffins.
MySpicyKitchen
Mouthwatering spicy chutney. Love it
Amara’s cooking
Love this yummy chutney.
Sandhya Ramakrishnan
Flavorful chutney! Works great with idli, dosai or rice 🙂
Kalyani
super like.. I make this thogayal as well. pairs with rice so well 🙂 btw its Karibevu :-))
veena
Yummy chutney.