Description
Vathal kolumbu can be prepared only with onion also. My husband favourite is vathal kolumbu.
| Ingredients | |
|---|---|
| 1 cup | Onion (chopped) |
| 1 T | Sundakai vathal |
| 1 T | Manathakali vathal |
| Lemon Sz | Tamarind |
| 2 tsp | Corainder powder |
| 2 T | Sambhar powder |
| 1 tsp | Turmeric powder |
| Oil – for sautéing | |
| 1½ tsp | Chilli powder |
| Salt to taste |
Instructions
First soak the tamarind and take pulp of it and keep aside. Take a pan with little oil and fry sundakai vathal and manathakali vathal and keep it seperately. Now add little more oil and fry onions (not too brown) with curry leaves , then sim the gas flame (to avoid burning of dry powders) and add all dry powders ( coriander, chilli, turmeric, sambhar) just mix all the powder with the onions and pour the tamarind pulp and salt and let it boil increase the flame little ,let the kolumbu boil and reduce little, to thicken .When it starts to get thicken in that stage add the sundakai and manathakali vathals and let it boil for sometimes till oil floats.
Notes
Vathals like mangai, katharikai can also be added in this kolambu. If we use mangai and kathirikai vathal, as soon as we pour tamarind juice we have to add these both vathal to cook .Even without any vathals only with onions we can prepare this dish.
Main thing we can cook and store in refrigerator for many days.
Nalennai (gingely oil) and small onions if used, very good taste
17 Comments
hi,
how much water did u add to the tamarind? thanks..will try soon..
Vathal kuzhambu looks very good with seperated oil, Latha…
Even we prepare venthaya kulambu ya manoo even I like it very much.so this weekend enjoy the curry ………..
Hiiiii
We srilankans also make vatral kuzhambu only with onion & some garlic… we call it venthaya kuzhambu… We fry onion n garlic until they turn out into brown n add some fenugreek seeds. We only use gingely oil as well… Just the venthaya kuzhambu tastes good with white rice… Nothing can beat it na… You remembered our venthaya kuzhambu… going to make it this weekend
Hi,
Side dish for vathal kolumbu should not be too spicy .You can have omlete, egg fry(burgi), potato or simply appalam(pappads)
Hello,
what will the best side dish for vathal kolumbu? Please suggest something.
Thanks
hi,
i hope aviyal goes well with vathalkuzhambu.i just posted the recipe t’day.u can try it.
its one of my favourites.
hope u will like it
bye
Dear visitor,
Its 1 tsp, even u can add one and half teaspoon .Thanks for trying the recipe ,try my other recipes also
Hi Latha,
Today i prepared valthal kolumbhu it came out great .Thanks for ur recipe. But i have a doubt is it 11 teaspoons of chillipowder or 1 teaspoon.please reply.
Hello kaberi, U can find the details in http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantcd Actually even I dont know of english term when I browsed for this I got these details . Kaberi but u can prepare the curry only with onions it tastes the same.
Hi visitor,
Store brought sambhar pwd can also be used.The way I prepare sambhar pwd is ;
coriander seeds – 2 tbsp
chana dal – 1tbsp
fenugreek seeds – 1/4 tsp
black pepper – 4-5
rice – 1tsp
jeera – 1tsp
curry leaves – 5-6(optional)
Dry roast all the above ingredients, when cool grind to a fine powder. I dont usally add red chillies ,directly I use red chilly powder while making curry
Hope u enjoy vathal kolumbu as well as sambhar made of this powder.
hey latha thanks for the sambar powder recipe.i was thinking from past some days to try this powder at home instead of buying outside.thanks for your help.
hi latha, pls let me know sambar powder receipe. i use store bought sambar powder for sambar. so pls let me know the exact preparation of sambar powder for vatha kolambu. thanks
Hi kaberi, I dont think so u will get sundakai and manathakali in U.S ,but if u have any tamil friends u can get it from tamilnadu. I think u know curd chillies which is dried one (in pappad varieties) ,this sundakai and manaathakali is also same type
All the best
hey latha,thanks for your info.just now i saw the pics of your dish…its looks yammy.my inlaws house is in hyderabad and at their house,one mostly prepared dish is KARA PULUSU.i will try without that two ingredients only
thanks latha,i will definitely follow the link and try to prepare your recipe…ya i have seen that you said to prepare with onion only.but i want to prepare both the ways 🙂
hey latha,can you give the name of that two ingredients Sundakai vathal n Manathakali vathal in english.i dont know south indian name of ingredients.thats why a request…thanks in advance.