Pomegranate Tambli
Pomegranate Tambli is an easy and healthy side dish made from Pomegranate peels , coconut , curd and few spices .
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup Pomegranate peels, piece
- 1/2 tsp Cumin seed / jeera
- 1/2 tsp Pepper
- 1 no Green chilli
- 1/4 cup Coconut, fresh / desiccated
- 1/2 cup Yoghurt / curd / buttermilk
- 1 tsp Ghee
- Salt to taste
To temper
- 1 tsp Ghee
- 1 tsp Mustard
- 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds / Jeera
- 1-2 nos Red Chilli / Sandige Menasu / Sun dried curd chilli
- few Curry leaves
Instructions
- Wash and clean the pomogranate peels . Gently scrap all the inner thin whitish portion of the peel. This will be little bitter and hence we won't be using.Next ,cut the cleaned pomegrante peels into small piece .
- In a frying pan, add 1/2 teaspoon of ghee and pomegranate peels .Roast on low medium flame , till the peels are well sauted and gets crisp and slight brownish .
- Add cumin seeds, pepper , green chilly and fry them all till the cumin seeds and pepper become little crisp.Allow the mix to cool .
- Grind the fried ingredients along with salt, coconut and little water. The paste should be super smooth.
- Transfer the ground paste into a serving bowl. Add the buttermilk and mix properly. The consistency of tambli should be thinner than chutney, something like rasam consistency. If you want you can add little water along with curd /buttermilk.
- Next temper the tambli. In a small kadai, add ghee. When ghee is hot, add mustard seeds and jeera seeds. When mustard seeds splutter, add red chilli / curd chilli and curry leaves.
- Add this tempering to the thambli mixture.
- Pomegranate thambli is ready to serve.
Notes
- Remove the inner thin white peel nicely. Else tambli turns little bitter .
- Fry the peels nicely till golden for best taste .
- Don't add much chilly as thambli are basically mild in nature.
- You can also use oil instead of ghee. However, It is suggested to use ghee because that adds a special aroma characteristic to this dish, so try using it.
- The curd/buttermilk you use should be little sour.
- Always serve the thambli fresh. It won't taste that great if you refrigerate and use the next day. They just taste OK.