Chettinad Vatha Kulambu (Barge Sauce) - Full Recipe with needed Ingredients

Do you want to make the delicious Chettinad vatha kulambu (barge sauce) at your home but don't know how to make it? Learn here about how to cook the spicy vatha kulambu by your own and get cooking tips and ideas to impress your family, friends and relatives. Here is the full receipe with the name of all needed ingredients and you can learn it step by step manner.

Name of the dish

>Barge sauce (Vatha Kulambu)

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Needed Ingredients:

>Tamarind - size of a handle

>Little onion - 10
Garlic - 10
Cuntaikkay vattal - a handle size
Manattakkali vattal - a handle size
Salt - as required

>Oil - 3 spoon
Turmeric powder - a little
Mustard - a little
Blackgram - a little

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For dry grinding :

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Dried chillies - 5 or 6
Coriander seed - 2 table spoon
Lentil - 1 table spoon
Pepper - 1 table spoon
Cumin seeds - 1 tea spoon
Curry Tree - 1 Bundle
Fenugreek - 10 Count

Cooking Method :

Place a pan on the gas stove and put the coriander seeds in a pan with little oil, lentil, pepper, curry tree leaves, fenugreek, cumin, dried chillies and fry them untill they turn brown, after that add 3 or 4 small onions and grind the total mixture.

Add 1 table spoon of oil in a pan and fry the sundakai vathal and manat takkali vattal and store them separately from the pan and leave them alone. In the same oil, add blackgram, Garlic, Onion and cook well and then add dissolving tamarind water, salt and along with it add turmeric powder.
While boiling , add the sundakai vathal and manat takkali vattal mixture which had been prepared before and also add 2 table spoon of oil while boiling.

After finishing the above steps, turn off the flames and dry well.
You can serve this barge with the rice and can have the appalat as side dish. It will be very nice and healthy too. You can also add brinjal and drumstick instead of adding the sundakai vathal and manat takkali vattal. Avoid unhealthy fast foods and enjoy the traditional foods.