Kumbalakai Majjige Hulli is a flavourful and tangy dish made from freshly ground coconut along with green chillies and buttermilk. This goes well along with hot steamed rice and a vegetable (palya) for lunch or dinner.
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Ingredients:
· Ash gourd – 250-300 gms (small cubes)
· Salt as per taste
· Jaggery – ½ tsp
· Freshly grated coconut – ¾ cup
· Roasted rice – 1.5 tsp
· Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
· Green chillies – 1-2
· Butter milk – 1 cup or whisked curd – ½ cup
For Tempering
· Coconut oil – 1 tbsp
· Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
· Broken dried red chiles – 1-2
· Hing – ¼ tsp
· Curry leaves – 1 sprig
Method:
· Take a utensil add the ash gourd pieces along with little water, salt and jaggery. Cover and cook it.
· Now take a mixer jar add grated coconut, roasted rice, cumin seeds and green chilies. Grind it into a fine paste.
· Once the ash gourd is cooked well, add the grounded mixture. Keep stirring continuously.
· Now on a low flame add the buttermilk or whisked curd. Keep stirring or else it may curdle.
· Once it comes to a boil, turn off the flame.
· Take a tempering pan add coconut oil, mustard seeds, broken red chilies, hing and curry leaves. Pour this on the prepared majjige hulli
· Serve this with hot steamed rice.