Pachi Pulsu

Ingredients:

• Tamarind/Chintapandu - 2 to 3 tbsp
• Onion - 1 chop into cubes
• Green Chillies - 3
• Garlic - 5 flakes
• Curry leaves/karvepaaku - 2stems
• Avalu/mustard seeds - 1tsp
• Jeelakarra/cumin seeds - 1tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/2tsp
• Sugar - 1/2 tsp or a pinch of jaggery(bellam)
• Salt to taste
• Water - 250ml
• Coriander leaves chopped - 2tbsp

Method:

• Soak tamarind/chintapandu in 250ml of water for 30mintues and squeeze the pulp and keep the water aside.
• Burn green chillies directly on the stove for 2mintues.
• Now roughly grind  green chillies, garlic and salt and mix it in tamarind water.
• Add chopped onions, sugar or jaggery to tamarind water and keep it aside.
• Now heat oil in pan. Add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, turmeric powder and allow it to splutter.
• Once spluttering starts add curry leaves.
• Add this tadka/popu to the tamarind water and garnish it with coriander leaves