Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, mint dip/pudina thogayal. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Pudina thogayal recipe with step by step pics. You can easily double or triple the recipe. Mint Thogayal or Pudina thuvaiyal is a very flavorful dish prepared with fresh mint leaves, lentils, tamarind and other spices.
Mint dip/Pudina thogayal is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Mint dip/Pudina thogayal is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have mint dip/pudina thogayal using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Mint dip/Pudina thogayal:
- Take 1 cup fresh mint (stalks removed)
- Make ready 2 tsp urad dal
- Make ready 1/4 tsp hing/asafoetida
- Prepare 5 Dry red chillies
- Get 2 tsp oil
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Make ready 1 grape sized tamarind (without seeds); or 1 tsp tamarind paste
- Make ready 1/4 cup coconut (grated/powder); optional
- Make ready 2 tablespoons water (optional)
We often make this, especially when we have a bunch of fresh mint leaves. Mint Thogayal is very common in our house. This pudina thogayal is for rice and is totally different from the pudina chutney which is served as a side Every week I buy a bunch of mint leaves from the market and I prepare either mint pulao or mint chutney for idly, dosa or this thogayal for rice. Pudina Thogayal (Mint Thogayal) very easy to make thogayal variety.
Steps to make Mint dip/Pudina thogayal:
- Wash the mint leaves and let them dry. Ensure there are no insects as mint; grown naturally tend to attract worms.
- Add oil to a pan. Toss in urad dal; asafoetida and chillies. Sauté on low heat to the urad dal turns golden brown. Then toss in the mint. Make sure that the heat is low as mint cooks real fast. Add in the coconut if including; at this point. Sauté for 2 minutes more. Then turn off the stove. Let it cool.
- Now in a blender; add the mix from pan, salt, tamarind block and grind well to paste. If it appears to stick; add some water and grind well to paste.
- Thogayal ready! Serve with hot rice or dosa or idli. Or use it to add additional flavor in your Biriyani/Pulao.
Mint leaves are so healthy and tasty. This Pudina Thogayal is a very delicious thogayal variety. Thogayal are usually thick in consistency than chutney. Also the texture is coarse and not smooth. Recipe for Tamilnadu style Pudina Thogayal / Mint chutney for rice made with the addition of coconut and lentils.
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