Amla Recipes | Nellikai Tambli | Gooseberry Tambli Recipe
Ingredients
- Amla/Gooseberry/Nellikai- 2 no.s
- Fresh grated coconut- 4 teaspoon
- Cumin seeds- 3/4 teaspoon
- Green chillies- 1 no.
- Salt- 1 to 1.5 teaspoon
- Whisked curds or buttermilk- 1 bowl
Seasoning Ingredients
- Coconut oil- 1 teaspoon
- Mustard seeds- 1/2 teaspoon
- Split black gram lentil- 1/2 teaspoon
- Broken redchillies- 1 no.
- Curry leaves- few
Instructions
Preparation
- Wash and deseed the gooseberries. Keep them aside.
Method
- In a mixer add deseeded gooseberries, grated coconut, green chilly, salt and cumin seeds. Grind it to fine paste adding water as required.
- Transfer it to a big bowl and add whisked curds or buttermilk. Mix well.
- Heat a seasoning pan adding all the seasoning ingredients in the same order as specified above, once when the mustard seeds splutter and split black gram lentil turns to little brown, add the seasoning to amla tambli/Nellikai tambli.
- Cooling and vitamin C rich nellikai tambli is ready to serve with hot steamed rice.
Note:
- Grind the tambli very finely. You should not get the amla pieces while biting.
- The consistency of nellikai tambli should be slightly thinner than normal chutney. When you add whisked curds or buttermilk it tends to be watery. So add water accordingly while grinding.
- You can substitute green chillies by red chilly or pepper. Each one gives it's own flavor and tambli will be equally good.