Inji Kuzhambu Recipe | Ginger Kuzhambu Recipe

Inji (Ginger) has lots of medicinal benefits. In day to day cooking, we all use ginger in most of our dishes. Inji Kuzhambu is one of the healthy and tasty dish that goes well with hot steaming rice. Whenever I feel indigestion or down with cold or cough, I make this inji kuzhambu and it is really soothing. Serve this yummy kuzhambu with roasted papad or any kootu varieties.

Preparation and Yield:

Preparation time	5 mins
Cooking Time	25 mins
Servings	4

Inji Kuzhambu Recipe | Ginger Kuzhambu Recipe

Ingredients:

Tamarind	1 lemon size
Ginger	2 1 inch piece
Urdal	2 teaspoon
Whole Black Pepper	2 teaspoon
Salt	To taste
Turmeric Powder	1/2 teaspoon
Grated Jaggery	1 teaspoon
Gingelly Oil	1 teaspoon

For Seasoning:

Mustard Seeds	1 teaspoon
Red Chilli	1
Curry Leaves	few
Gingelly Oil	1 teaspoon

Method:

Soak the tamarind in water and extract the juice

Heat oil pan, add uriddal, pepper and curry leaves and fry them till the dal turn golden brown color. Clean and peel the ginger and add it to the mixer along with the fried ingredients

Grind all the ingredients in the mixer to a fine paste. Heat a pan and add the tamarind juice along with turmeric and salt and allow it to boil.

When the raw smell of the tamarind goes off, add ground ginger paste and keep the flame low and allow the kuzhambu to cook and boil nicely. When the kuzhambu is cooked nicely, add grated jaggery and mix well and remove the kuzhambu from flame. Heat oil in another pan. When the oil is hot, add mustard seeds, When the mustard seeds starts to sputter, channa dal and fry till the dal turns golden brown color. Add broken red chilli and curry leaves and saute for 10 seconds.

Add the seasoned ingredients to the kuzhambu and mix well

Serve the yummy Inji Kuzhambu with hot steaming rice and enjoy the taste!

Inji Kuzhambu Recipe | Ginger Kuzhambu Recipe