Healthy Recipes - Contest Entry 01 - Curry leaves chutney (Karuveppilai thuvaiyal) - Renjitham

Ingredients:

Curry Leaves - One handful

Grated coconut - 1 spoon

Cumin seeds (Jeergam) - 1/4 spoon

Shallot (Chinna vengaayam) - 1

Green chillies - 2

Tamarind - little

Salt - To taste

Preparation

• Heat oil in a pan. Saute Curry leaves, Shallot and Green chillies for a few minutes.
• Cool the sauteed items.
• In a mixie / blender, add the sauteed items, coconut, cumin seeds, Tamarind and salt.

Benefits

Folic acid is mainly important for carrying and helping the body absorb iron. Curry leaves are rich source of both iron and folic acid. Hence they are excellent source for beating anaemia.

Curry leaves also helps to keep blood sugar level low and hence is good for fighting against diabetes.

The leaves also helps to improve digestion and reduce cholesterol level.

On the cosmetic side, curry leaves are natural remedy to avoid greying of hair.