I’d blogged about this dish sometime back. So i won’t go into the details of making it yet again! But here are some pics from when my MIL was around and making it! Ahh, Sunday Specials!!! 🙂
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I’d blogged about this dish sometime back. So i won’t go into the details of making it yet again! But here are some pics from when my MIL was around and making it! Ahh, Sunday Specials!!! 🙂
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Gongura is one of the most popular leafy vegetables in Andhra. In fact, no marriage or any auspicious occasion is complete without gongura pachadi on its menu.
Gongura, red sorrel, comes in 2 varieties: one with a green stem and other with red stem. The red stem variety is more sour that the green one. It is a summer crop, and the hotter the p[lace, the more sour the leaf gets. Hence the best gongura hails from the Guntur region of Andhra Pradesh.
Red Sorrel has some health benefits too and is useful in relieving symptoms of fever. The leaves of this herb are useful in the prevention and treatment of scurvy which is a deficiency caused by lack of vitamin C. Fresh leaves of the plant are useful in stimulating the stomach and aiding its action. These leaves are beneficial in the treatment of jaundice and a tablespoon of fresh red sorrel juice mixed with butter-milk (made from cow’s milk) is recommended once daily in the treatment of jaundice.
There are various dishes that can be made with gongura. Gongura pappu and gongura pachadi are the common dishes that can be made. The gongura pulusu-kura is a special dish, and was taught to me by my mother-in-law.
Ingredients:
1 bunch of Gongura
lime-sized ball of tamarind
10 green chillies
1/2 tsp menthulu (fenugreek seeds)
1 tsp senaga pappu (chana dal)
Tadka: 1 tsp each of aavalu (mustard seeds), menthulu (fenugreek) and mina pappu (urad dal), and 1 red chilli
Method:
The pulusu kura can be had with rice and utti pappu.