Doddapatre Tambuli Recipe (Karpooravalli Thayir Pachadi)

Total Time: 30 minutes

Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients:

  • salt
  • coconut
  • ghee
  • black peppercorns
  • indian borage (doddapatre)
  • curd
  • cumin seeds (jeera)

Instructions:

  • To begin making the Doddapatre Tambuli, first thoroughly wash the doddapatre leaves and wipe them dry between kitchen towels
  • Then place a kadai on the heat
  • Heat a tablespoon of ghee in it, and add the doddapatre leaves to the ghee
  • Sauce them gently on a medium heat until they change colour and sweat
  • continue to saute until all the water they release has evaporated
  • The leaves will change colour and reduce to half the quantity
  • Take them out of the kadai and transfer them into a mixer and set the jar aside
  • In the same kadai, dry roast jeera and black pepper corns till the jeera turns dark in colour and aromatic
  • Add these roasted spices also into the mixer jar
  • Add coconut, salt to the mixer too and grind it using half the quantity of yogurt, until it is a smooth paste
  • Transfer the paste into a serving bowl
  • Top it up with the remaining yogurt and whisk until it is smoothly combined
  • Place a tadka ladle on the heat and melt some ghee in it
  • When the ghee is warm, add the cumin seeds, allow them crackle, and pour the tempering over the tambuli
  • Mix well and serve child along with Steamed Rice