Ingredients:
Breadfruit / Sheema Chakka / Kadachakka - 1 kg (Cut into medium pieces)
Onion - 1 medium (Sliced)
Ginger - 1 big piece (Crushed)
Garlic - 5 fat cloves (Crushed)
Curry leaves
Turmeric powder - ¼ tbsp
Tomato - 2 small
Salt
Oil
To roast and grind
Grated coconut - 3 handful
Star anise - 1
Cinnamon - 1 small piece
Cardamom - 5
Fennel seeds - 1½ tbsp
Coriander seeds - 4 tbsp / Coriander powder - 2 tbsp
Turmeric powder - ½ tbsp
Red chilly powder - 1½ tbsp
For tempering:
Coconut Oil
Mustard seeds - ½ tbsp
Dried red Chillies - 3
Onion - Half of a medium onion / Shallots : 2
Turmeric powder - 2 pinches
Curry leaves
Steps:
Leave the kadachakka pieces in water till ready to use.
Heat a pan and dry roast star anise, cardamom, cinnamon, fennel seeds and coriander seeds.
When the whole spices start to turn golden, add coconut. Mix well.
Add curry leaves. Add 2 shallots also, if you have them.
Once the coconut becomes dry, add some coconut oil and saute on low flame till the coconut turns lightly golden.
Then, lower the flame and add turmeric powder. Sauté till the raw smell goes away.
Add more oil, if required.
Add red chilly powder and sauté till the raw smell goes away.
Switch off and transfer it to a plate to cool down.
Then ground it to a fine paste adding some water.
Heat oil in a pan.
Add crushed ginger and garlic, onion and curry leaves.
Once the onion starts to brown, lower the flame and add ¼ tbsp turmeric powder.
Add ground coconut paste and 2 cups of water.
Add tomato, kadachakka and salt.
Increase the flame. Cover and bring it to boil.
Stir often.
Once it is ¾th cooked, cover and cook on low flame for 10 minutes or till gravy thickens.
Switch off and leave it covered.
Heat oil in a pan.
Add mustard seeds and let it splutter.
Add dry red chilly.
Add shallots/onion and curry leaves.
Add 2 pinches of turmeric powder and roast on low flame.
Switch off and add this to the curry.
Mix well and leave it covered for a minute.
Serve the varutharacha kadachakka curry with hot rice.
Notes:
-If you are using coriander powder, add it along with other powders after roasting coconut.
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11 сен 2024