Manathakali Vathakuzhambu

The idle Brahmin dish is vathakuzhambu (spicy sambar) and it is an awesome combination with grilled papad (Sutta appalam). The flavor would be so good that even after you eat u can smell the aroma on your hands ;)
There are many ways and kinds of Vathakuzhambu this is one of the kind to make it.

Ingredients:

1 small lemon sized Tamarind
3tbs Sambar powder
Required Salt
1/4tsp Turmeric Powder

To Temper:

4 tbs Gingely oil
1 tbs  Methi Seeds
1 tbs Mustard
1 tbs Jeera
1 tbs Urad Dal
1 tbs Channa Dal
Few Curry leaves
Handful of Manathakali dried seeds

Method:

• Soak the Tamrind in hot water for about 15mins. And extract thick juice from it.
• In a Hot Kadai add to the temper ingredients in order. Once Dried Manathakali seeds are added fry untill they turn black and big.
• After that add the extracted tamrind water to the kadai
• Allow it to boil till the raw smell goes off. Once the smell goes add little turmeric, sambar powder and salt. If the mixture is very thick you can add some water and allow it to boil. Once nice aroma comes and the mixture is little thick and oil snoozes out from the sambar it is the right time to switch off the flame.
• Serve them with hot rice with a spoon of oil. It will be quite spicy but would taste really good.