Menthi Miriyalu Gojju

Ingredients

• • Garlic - 10 flakes
• • Onions (small, peeled) - ½ cup
• • Tamarind - lemon size
• • Red chillies - 3
• • Mustard seeds - ¼ teaspoon
• • Black gram dal - 1 teaspoon
• • Bengal gram dal - 1 teaspoon
• • Fenugreek - ½ teaspoon
• • Pepper (coarsely powdered) - 1 teaspoon
• • Salt - as required
• • Jaggery - as required

Method

• 1. Soak tamarind in enough water and then squeeze to take extract.
• 2. Heat oil in a deep frying pan, add mustard, bengal gram, black gram, fenugreek, broken red chillies, and curry leaves.
• 3. Add peeled garlic, onions and fry till it turns golden.
• 4. Add tamarind extract, salt, jaggery and boil till gravy becomes thick.
• 5. Add pepper at the end and remove from fire.
• 6. If gravy is watery, mix 1 teaspoon of rice flour with little water and add to gravy when it is boiling to make it thick.