Morkuzhambu or South Indian Kadi

Morkuzhambu or South Indian Kadi

This is a spiced up yoghurt based south indian dish - especially famous in Kerala and Tamilnadu.This is best taken with Rice or Sevai

Ingredients

1. Yoghurt - 1 cup

2. Desiccated or Fresh Coconut powder - 1/2 cup

3. Green chillies - 4 to 5

4. Methi/Vendhayam/Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tea spoon

5. Red Chillies - 2 to 3

6. Curry leaves - 10 leaves

7. Salt - 3/4 of a tea spoon

8.Water - as required

9. Turmeric powder - 1/2 tea spoon

10.Hing/Asofoetida/Perungayam - a pinch

11. Jeera/Cumin seeds - 1 tea spoon

12. Mustard - 1/2 tea spoon

13. Cooking coconut oil - 2 tea spoons
14. Rice -1 tea spoon

15. Okra- 4 - 5 cut in 1/2 inch pieces fried well in oil

Procedure:

1. Grind the Coconut powder, Green chillies, half of the curry leaves, rice and Cumin seeds.

 2.  Take the yoghurt in a vessel and beat it thoroughly till all lumps are broken.

Add enough water , (usually I take  1 cup of water and 1 cup of yoghurt ) and  mix the salt and turmeric powder in it. Add the ground coconut mixture in yoghurt


3. Cut okra into 1/2 inch pieces. In a wok, add 2 spoons of cooking coconut oil and heat it.



When the oil is hot, fry the okra pieces till they slightly brown in color and till they become crispy. At this stage, take them in a separate plate and leave the oil behind in the wok/frying pan.



4. To the same oil, add in the mustard and allow them to splutter.Add the fenugreek seeds and fry till they brown.

5. Add the red chillies, asafoetida and curry leaves.

6. Add the yoghurt mixture and pour it in the wok.

7. Allow the mixture to heat till the yoghurt just starts to boil. Add the okra to this mix, at this stage. Don't let the mixture to boil well else it would curdle.

8. Turn off the stove and keep the vessel aside.



Yummy morkuzhambu is ready to be served with rice.