Amla thambli / Nellikai Tambuli
Amla Tambli / Nellikai Tambuli - A bowl with filled with deliciousness and satvik good health !!! A traditional age old dish from South Canara – Malenadu region .
Ingredients
- 3-5 nos Amla / Nellikai
- 1/4 cup Coconut
- 1-1 1/2 cup Butter milk / Curd, as required
- Salt to taste
To Roast ( Masala )
- 1 tsp Jeera / Cumin Seeds
- 1/2 tsp Pepper
- 1 no Green Chilli
- 1 tsp Ghee
To Temper
- 1-2 tsp Ghee
- 1/2 tsp Mustard
- 1/4 tsp Ajwain seeds / Oma
- few Curry leaves
- 1 no Curd Chilli / Sandige Menasu , ( optional )
Instructions
- In a vessel boil water . Add amla to it . Cook for 5-6 mins. Alternatively , you can pressure cook for 2 whistles / steam cook.
- Cool, cooked amla. Once they are cool, you can just press the amla along the wedges ( lines ) and de seed it. It's very easy to deseed it this way. Keep the pulp aside and discard the seeds.
- In a pan add tsp of ghee and roast Jeera,pepper and green chilli.Fry for a minute.
- Let they get crispy and aromatic. Keep aside to cool .
- To a mixer add coconut , de seeded amla , roasted spices , salt to taste and butter milk .
- Grind very very smooth .
- Transfer the ground paste to a bowl . Add remaining buttermilk . Mix well.
- If required add water to adjust consistency.
- Prepare a tempering. In a small kadai, heat ghee. Splutter mustard . Add ajwain , curry leaves and curd chilli . Saute for a min .
- Pour the tempering over tambli . Enjoy it with hot rice.