” Hibiscus Tambuli / Dasavala Thambli ” a healthy, tasty and easy coastal Karnataka dish which is relished with rice.
Ingredients
- 10-12 nos Hibiscus
- Salt to taste
To grind
- 1/2 cup Coconut
- 1 no Green chilli
- 1 cup Curd / Butter milk
To Temper
- 1-2 tsp Ghee
- 1/4 tsp Mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds / Jeera
- few Curry Leaves
- 1 no Sun dried Curd Chilli / Sandige Menasu
Instructions
- Pluck and pick fresh red hibiscus flowers.
- Separate the green region and centre pistil region of the flower.
- Like this we will be using only petals of the flower.
- Wash the flowers nicely. Make sure there are no ants or dirt.
- Chop the petals finely.
- Transfer to a bowl. Add a tsp of salt.
- Mash it nicely using a spoon or hand. Let it leave out juices.
- To a blender, add Coconut, green chilli and curd.
- Grind smooth.
- Transfer the ground masala to the squeezed hibiscus petals.
- Mix nicely. Add curd / water, if required and adjust the consistency.
- Now prepare a tempering. Add ghee to a small frying pan. Splutter Mustard , Jeera. Add few curry leaves and broken curd chilli. Saute till they are crisp . Add this to the hibiscus thambuli
- Hibiscus Tambli is ready ready to relish with rice.
