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Old 14th December 2006, 08:52 AM
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Lightbulb Ginger Thokku

  • 150 Gms. Ginger
  • 50 Gms. Tamarind
  • 50 Gms. Garlic
  • 4 Teaspoons Red Chilly Powder
  • 1 Teaspoon Mustard Seed Powder
  • 1 Teaspoon Fenugreek Powder (fried and powdered)
  • 4 to 6 Table spoons Gingelly Oil
  • 1 Small piece of Jaggery
  • Salt to taste
  • Curry leaves.
  1. First peel ginger and cut in to small pieces.
  2. Peel garlic and make pieces
  3. Wash and soak tamarind in 4 teaspoons of water for 1/2 an hour.
  4. Put ginger, garlic and tamarind in a mixer grinder and grind well
  5. Pour oil in a pan and make seasoning
  6. Add the ginger mixture in the pan and mix well
  7. Add red chilly powder, fenugreek powder, mustard powder and salt.
  8. Mix well and allow it to cook well. After some time add the powdered Jaggery in the thokku
  9. And mix well. Add curry leaves and when oil comes out of thokku, you switch off the stove.
  10. After it cools transfer the ginger thokku in a jar or bottle.
  11. This is one of the best thokku .You can keep for more than a year.

Last edited by krishnaamma; 15th April 2008 at 02:41 AM.
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