Gonkura Pachadi With Green Chillies

Ingredients

• • Gonkura leaves - 1 ½ cups
• • Green chillies - 12
• • Onion (big, diced into 1 inch pieces) - 1
• • Coriander seeds - 1 ½ teaspoons
• • Fenugreek - ¼ teaspoon
• • Mustard seeds - ¼ teaspoon
• • Garlic (crushed) - 3 flakes
• • Oil - 2 tablespoons
• • Asafoetidas - a pinch
• • Salt - as required

Method

• 1. Heat little oil in a frying pan, add mustard, fenugreek, asafoetida and remove when it splutters.
• 2. Fry coriander seeds and green chillies for a minute in the same oil and remove.
• 3. Fry leaves separately in oil till it shrinks.
• 4. First pound the spices and then add leaves, diced onion, salt and pound to coarse paste.
• 5. Heat little oil, season little mustard seeds and fry crushed garlic in that oil.
• 6. Add to gonkura and mix well.