Healthy Recipes - Contest Entry 02 - Fenugreek gravy (Venthaya kuzhambu) - Renjitham
Ingredients:
Fenugreek seeds / Venthayam - 50 grams
Grated coconut - 4 spoon
Cumin seeds (Jeeragam) - 1/4 spoon
Turmeric powder - 1/4 spoon
Red chilli powder - 1 spoon
Corriander powder - 2 spoon
Onion - 1
Tomato - 1
Tamarind - Marble size
Salt - To taste
Oil - 1 spoon
Mustard seeds - 1/4 spoon
Preparation
- Cut Onion and Tomato into small pieces and keep it aside
- Soak tamarind in 1/4 cup of water for a few minutes and filter it.
- Blend coconut and cumin seeds in blender / mixie
- Add Chilli powder and corriander powder to the blended paste and mix it.
- Heat a pan and fry Fenu greek for a few minutes (You can add oil, if you prefer)
- Now pulse the fried fenugreek one or two times in mixie / blender, to break the it into very small chunks.
- In a pan, heat oil and then add mustard seeds and curry leaves.
- Add cut onion pieces and caramelize them.
- After onion changes color, add the cut tomato pieces.
- Add the fenugreek chunks and mix it well.
- Now add the blended paste, salt and tamarind water.
- If required add more water.
- Allow it to boil and remove it from the furnace when it reaches curry consistency (kuzhambu patham)
Benefits
Digestion - Fenugreek helps flush out harmful toxins. It relieves indigestion and helps treat constipation.
Diabetes - Fenugreek is beneficial for people with diabetes.
Cardiovascualr benefits - Fenugreek seed has cardiovascular benefits due to the presence of galactomannan. It lowers the risk of heart attack. It is also an excellent source of potassium which counters the action of sodium to help control heart rate and blood pressure.
Reduce Cholestrol - According to studies fenugreek helps to reduce cholesterol level, especially that of the low density lipoprotein (LDL)
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