Pulungari or Puli Kuthi koottu or Puliyangari

Pulungari or Puli Kuthi koottu or Puliyangari
As the name suggests this  is one of the delicacies with tamarind. An excellent alternative for sambar & a very good side dish for mulakoottal / curd rice.This is a classical Palakkad dish. There's also a dry version of this, which I will share in a separate post.

Ingredients

1. 2 cups of sliced & diced Indian veggies (Indian beans, long beans, brinjal, bhindi, snake-gourd, white/red pumpkins/ taro / yam/ tindora / Raw banana)
2. Tamarind - one lemon size
3. Raw Rice -2 tsps, fenugreek or methi seeds - 1/2 tsp, 4-5 red chilies - for dry roasting & grinding
4. Shredded Coconut - 1/2 cup or 1 tbsps
5. Cooked tuar dhal - 1 c.5 cups
6. mustard/u.dhal - 1/2 tsp, fenu greed seeds - 1/2 tsp,curry leaves - 5-10, red chillies - 2, hing - a pinch , cocnut oil - 1.5 tsps - for seasoning
7. Jaggery / Molasses powder - 1tsp
8. Salt to taste
9. Green Chillies - 3-4

Procedure

1. Add tamarind pulp, salt, jaggery, turmeric powder, a pinch of hing to about 3-4 cups of water in a vessel.
2. Now silt he green chilies and add it tot he vessel.
3. Place the vessel on stove and bring it to a boil.
4. Add your Indian veggie mix to the vessel and cook it covered on medium flame.
5. In the mean time - in a pan, dry roast raw rice, methi seeds and red chilies on low flame.
6. After the methi seeds turn red, transfer the contents to a mixer container and allow the same to cool.
7. Add 1/2 cup of crated coconut and grind the same to a coarse paste.
8. After the veggies/ tamarind mixture is cooked, add this paste.
9. If needed add a little hot water to the vessel.
10. After it starts to boil, add 1.5 cups of cooked tuar dhal.
11. Make sure that it's not too watery -as it solidifies later.
12. Turn off the stove now.
13. In a pan, add coconut oil, and add u. dhal & mustard.
14. After mustard splutters add curry leaves, red chilies, hing, red chilies powder and turn off the stove.
15. Add seasoning on top of your gravy.

Pulungari is ready and enjoy it with rice, dosa, idli, bread, rotis etc..

Note: A mixture of vegetables are preferred . But if you have only one,  type that's good too. Oakra or ladies finger is very popular for this dish.