PULI INJI RECIPE - INJI PULI RECIPE / KERALA RECIPES

INJI PULI RECIPE / KERALA RECIPES

Here am going to share a traditional dish from Kerala cuisine. Sweet and sour pickle / Inji puli / Puli inji is a dark brown Keralite curry made with fresh ginger, green chilies, jaggery, tamarind and other spices. A spicy, tangy condiment which is one of the main dishes served in Onam sadya. Without Inji puli Kerala feasts (sadhya) is incomplete. Here is the recipe showing how to make puliyinji / Inji puli / Puli inji / sweet and sour sauce with fresh ginger.

INGREDIENTS

Ginger                         - 3/4 cup or half a cup (skin peeled and finely chopped)

Green chilly                - 6 nos

Tamarind                     - one large lemon sized

Turmeric powder         - quarter tsp

Red chili powder         - 1 tsp

Jaggery                        - 2 blocks / cubes

Salt

FOR TEMPERING

Mustard seed       - half tsp

Dried red chili     - 1 or 2

Coconut oil

Curry leaves

PREPARATION

• Soak tamarind in one cup of warm water and set aside.
• Heat a pan with 2 tbsp of coconut oil and add finely chopped ginger, curry leaves and green chilies. Toss until it is nicely browned.
• Then add turmeric powder, red chili powder to it and saute until raw smell goes.
• Now press tightly the soaked tamarind with your hands and pour the water to the sauteed mixture. Mix well and let it boil.
• Mash the jaggey cubes well and then add it. Mix well and add salt.(if you don't prefer more sweetness,  add less jaggery ).
• Let it cook on a medium flame until it thickens. Stir occasionally.
• When done, off the flame.
• Heat a pan with some oil and splutter mustard seeds, then toss dried red chili and curry leaves. Pour it over the prepared puli inji.
• It will thicken once it is cooled.
• Tasty Injimpuli is ready to serve.

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