Saturday, July 9, 2011

The Hindu : Life & Style / Food : My Grandma's Recipe - How to make…Mambazha Pulissery

The Hindu : Life & Style / Food : My Grandma's Recipe - How to make…Mambazha Pulissery


Anitha Madhavan
Mambazha Pulissery.
The Hindu Mambazha Pulissery.

I learnt this traditional dish from my mother. This dish is usually served with piping hot rice and is a favourite with my family.

What you need

Ripe mangos (sweet and small): 6

Slit green chillies: 4

Water: 1 cup

Turmeric: half tsp

Grated fresh coconut: one and a half cup

Red chilly: 1

Shallot: 1

Jeera: 1 pinch

Salt: according to taste

Curd (thick and sour): 1 litre

Curry leaves: 1 sprig

Fenugreek powder: quarter tsp

Jeera powder: one pinch

For seasoning

Red chilly: 1

Shallot: 1 small piece

Mustard seeds: quarter tsp

Curry leaves: one sprig

Coconut oil: 1 tsp

Ghee: 2 tsp

Cooking instruction

Peel the mangos and cook them with green chillies, turmeric, salt and water in medium flame. When it boils, cook for five minutes. Grin coconut, red chilly, shallot and jeera into a fine paste and add to the cooked mangoes. Stir to boil and cook for 3 minutes on low flame. Then add the churned curd, along with fresh curry leaves. Heat this well. Remove from flame. Add jeera and fenugreek powder. Season the curry with red chilly, shallot, mustard and curry leaves in a mixture of cocunt oil and ghee.

(Anitha Madhavan is a Section Officer in the University of Kerala. She is a translator and a creative writer.)

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