Ennai Kathirikai Kulambu Recipe with step by step pictures. Whole brinjal cooked in a tangy tamarind gravy with whole spices and spice powder till a layer of oil floats on top.
Ennai Kathirikai Kulambu Recipe
This is a dish which makes my mouth water when I think about it. Such a flavourful dish, but if you are in diet like me, stay away from this. Because it has lots of oil in it.But I love to make this for my amma, because she go crazy for brinjals.
What a loving daughter can do more than this. I made this couple of weeks before and amma ate this for 2 days keeping in the fridge.
About Ennai Kathirikai Kuzhambu Recipe
Whole brinjal cooked in a tangy tamarind sauce which taste so good with hot rice. I like to freshly roasted masala in the kuzhambu which makes it taste amazing.
Actually this dish taste way better the next day. The truth is any dish that has coconut or roasted spices in it taste great the next day.
You will like this Stuffed Ennai Kathirikai Kuzhambu.
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Ingredients for Making Ennai Kathirikai
- Small Brinjals
- Tamarind
- Garlic
- Onion
- Curry leaves
- Jaggery / Sarkarai / Vellam or Sugar
- Gingelly Oil
- Fresh Coconut
How to Make Ennai Kathirikai Kulambu
Preparing Brinjal
Slit brinjals in the middle in to 4 parts..But make sure that the stem is intact with this.(See picture).
Masala for Ennai Kathirikai
Heat 1 tsp oil in a kadai and add in all the roasting ingredients and roast till golden and brown. Let this cool down. Now grind this into a smooth paste and set aside.
Making Kuzhambu
Heat rest of the oil in a kadai and crackle mustard and cumin seeds. Now add in asafoetida and curry leaves. Add in onions and garlic and fry for few minutes. Add in brinjal and fry for 5 minutes till it get seared on all sides.. Pour in the tamarind water and mix well. Add in the ground masala and season with salt and jaggery.
Simmer & Serve
Bring this to a good boil and simmer the flame. Let this cook partially covered for 20-30 mins. In which time the oil will have been separated from the mixture and the gravy must have thickened. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with rice.
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Ennai Kathirikai Kulambu Recipe | Ennai Kathirikai Kuzhambu Recipe
Ingredients
- 10 Small Brinjals
- Lemon size Tamarind (diluted in water)
- 10 Garlic
- 1 Onion sliced
- 3 sprig Curry leaves
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds / Kaduku
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds/Jeerakam
- 1 tbsp Jaggery / Sarkarai / Vellam or Sugar
- Salt to taste
- ½ tsp Asafoetida / Kaya Podi / Hing
- 6 tbsp Gingelly Oil (Indian sesame oil)
- Coriander leaves / Cilantro for garnishing
For Roasting and Grinding:
- 1 cup Fresh Coconut
- 1 tbsp Poppy Seeds / Kasa Kasa
- 1 tsp Black Pepper
- 6 Dry Red chilli
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds / Jeerakam
- 1 tsp Fenugreek seeds / Vendayam
- 2 tbsp Coriander powder / Malli Podi
- 1 Onion
Instructions
- Slit brinjals in the middle in to 4 parts..But make sure that the stem is intact with this.(See picture).
- Heat 1 tsp oil in a kadai and add in all the roasting ingredients and roast till golden and brown. Let this cool down. Now grind this into a smooth paste and set aside.
- Heat rest of the oil in a kadai and crackle mustard and cumin seeds.
- Now add in asafoetida and curry leaves. Add in onions and garlic and fry for few minutes..
- Add in brinjal and fry for 5 minutes till it get seared on all sides..
- Pour in the tamarind water and mix well. Add in the ground masala and season with salt and jaggery.
- Bring this to a good boil and simmer the flame. Let this cook partially covered for 20-30 mins.
- In which time the oil will have been separated from the mixture and the gravy must have thickened.
- Garnish with cilantro and serve with rice.
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zareena.b
Uffff... mind blowing pics Aarthi. I love this kathrikai curry a lot, but my Hubby doesn't like this veggie 🙁 so I only had this at my friend's house and fell in love with this.
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Chitra
ennai katharikai looks super good aarthi...
Hamaree Rasoi
Delicious looking brinjal curry. Excellent preparation.
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
Nalini's Kitchen
Wow...kulambhu looks yummy and delicious,u made it in mansatti(earthenware)i can imagine how tasty it wud be,drooling.Thanks for the wonderful recipe.
Sugan
Hi Thanks for the recipe. When i click on the link to potato roast, it goes to Onion Chutney page. Just to let you know.
Aarthi
@SuganI have updated
dharshik
Woww... thanks for the delicious dish
morri
Wow, this is so goooood. The coconut masala has such a deep, almost nutty taste. I served it with roast potatoes and raita.
Latha
Recipe looks great cooked in earthenware. Can u let me know where to get the earthenware vessel u cooked? Thanks.
Taani Singh Mukherjee
Its cooked in an earthenware wow...where can we get it and how to buy d best one
Fizza Rizvi
Wow. I just discovered this site and u r amazing. U've explained everything so clearly with pictures. Being a Pakistani, we have a similar taste buds as yours. Gonna try almost all of ur recipies, especially this one.
Anonymous
Hi arthi, how cn i replace poppy seeds in this recipe; as we r in uae and poppy seeds r banned here
Aarthi
@Anonymousu can skip that
Hema Reddy
Thank you so much for the recipe it was just osm, this my best dish ever just love it... thanks a ton...
Ramesh
I Love it 🙂
Ramesh
I Love it 🙂
suji
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Valarie Dneill
Wow i luv cookin ive neva cooked this receipe bt will try it. Will try to download all your receipes. Thanks & God bless.
Prats
The recipe is amazing and simple to make thank you