Name: Sodhi Kuzhambu (Cream of Coconut Milk with Vegetables) recipe by Subhashni Venkatesh at BetterButter
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: Coconut shells 2 from a large sized Coconut; Pressure cooked moong dal from 100 grams of moongh dal; Ginger juice taken from 50 grams of ginger; Slitted green chillies 6 or 7; Baby onions 10; Garlic pearls 10; Cauliflower florets 4 or 5; Diced veggies like carrot beans, carrot, potato, drumstick; Lemon Juice 1 table spoon; Butter beans and green peas 2 table spoons each (pressure cooked); Salt to taste; Coconut oil 4 table spoons; Cumin seeds and curry leaves

ABOUT Sodhi Kuzhambu (Cream of Coconut Milk with Vegetables) RECIPE

An age old, traditional, iconic recipe of Tirunelveli people. It is the mandatory item to be served in the feast made on the next day of marriage and the people never miss to have this next day feast for this tasty and delicious gravy. The sodhi kuzhambu mesmerizes you when had with potato fry and ginger curry.

Ingredients Serving: 6

Coconut shells 2 from a large sized Coconut
Pressure cooked moong dal from 100 grams of moongh dal
Ginger juice taken from 50 grams of ginger
Slitted green chillies 6 or 7
Baby onions 10
Garlic pearls 10
Cauliflower florets 4 or 5
Diced veggies like carrot beans, carrot, potato, drumstick
Lemon Juice 1 table spoon
Butter beans and green peas 2 table spoons each (pressure cooked)
Salt to taste
Coconut oil 4 table spoons
Cumin seeds and curry leaves

Instructions

Step 1
Add the shredded coconut from two shells into a blender with 250 ml of water and grind well. Squeeze out thick milk filter it and keep aside.
Put the residue in the blender again add 750 ml of water and grind well. By passing the stuff through a sieve take thin milk and keep aside.
Step 2
Keep a brpad pan on the stove. Pour in 3 table spoons of coconut oil.
Saute the green chillies, shallots and garlic pearls for 3 to 4 minutes in low flame.
Now add other vegetables and stir well. Pour the second thin coconut milk into it. Let the vegetables boil and cook well till becoming soft. (Don't add salt)
Once the vegetables are well boiled add the cooked peas and butter beans, the moong dal into it and wait till it boils for 2 minutes. Now switch off the stove.
Stepc3
Keep the pan down.
Add required salt to it, the thick coconut milk, ginger juice to it and mix well. Add the lemon juice into it.Mix well
Finally do the seasoning in one table spoon of coconut oil with cumin seeeds and curry leaves and add it to the gravy.

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