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Poondu kulambu recipe with step by step pictures 


               Poondu kulambu is a tasty healthy kulambu recipe of tamilnadu.  My grandma says that this kulambu is very good for feeding mothers and it helps to secrete more milk as it has more garlic.  This kulambu stays for 2-3 days and if you refrigerate it and it will stays for more than a week.  This kulambu goes well with hot rice and some pappads.  I like to make it once in two weeks.  Do try this recipe and sure you like it. 

Few more kulambu recipes to try out, 

             Hope you like the recipes.  Check out the poondu kulambu recipe below with step by step pictures. 

Enjoy the food  ! 


Ingredients   :


.   Poondu / garlic cloves  -  1 cup( 20 nos) 
.   Shallots / small onion  -  15 nos
.   Tomato  -  2 medium sized ( finely chopped) 
.   Curry leaves   -  1 sprig
.   Tamarind  -  1 lemon sized
.   Sesame oil  -  2 tblsp
.   Mustard seeds  -  1 tsp
.   Fenugreek seeds   -  1 tsp
.   Cumin seeds  -  1 tsp
.   Salt to taste
.   Kulambu powder   -  2 tblsp
.   Jaggery powder  -  1 tblsp


Method  :


            1.  Soak tamarind in hot water for 5 mins.  Make tamarind puree without seeds.  Keep it aside. 

            2. Heat oil in kadai.  Add mustard seeds,  cumin seeds and fenugreek seeds.  After it crackle,  add onion and curry leaves. 

            3. Saute until onion turns translucent.  Add garlic cloves.  Saute for a min.  Add tomato.  Saute until mushy. 

          4. Add kulambu powder and salt.  Mix well.  Add tamarind puree and water.  Mix well and cook until oil separates. 

         5. Add jaggery powder.  Cook for a min.  Poondu kulambu is ready. 


Pictorial   : 


             Soak tamarind in hot water for 5 mins


Make tamarind puree without seeds


Heat sesame oil in a kadai


Add mustard seeds,  fenugreek seeds and cumin seeds


After it splutters,  add small onion and curry leaves 


Saute until onion becomes translucent 


Add garlic cloves.  Saute for a min


Add tomato


Saute until mushy


Add kulambu powder and salt 


Mix well


Add tamarind puree


Add 1 cup water


Mix well


Cook until oil separates


Add jaggery powder


Cook for a min


Poondu kulambu is ready to be served 


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