Kathirikai Murungakkai Poriyal | Brinjal Drumstick Thokku

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Kathirikai Murungakkai Poriyal | Brinjal Drumstick Thokku | Brinjal Drumstick Curry | thokku recipe | Brinjal recipe is a delicious South Indian style semi - dry poriyal. Kathirikai Murungakkai flavorful poriyal tastes yummy as a side with any rice accompaniment or can also be mixed with rice and taken as a variety rice.

Due to some personal work I couldn't be active with my blog this week but yesterday I have posted few recipes in my YouTube channel for cold home remedies. Did you check it out? If not here are the links,

Lemon Ginger Tea

Turmeric Milk

Inji Kashayam 

Coming back to my Kathirikai Murungakkai Poriyal. As I have mentioned in my previous post I have been posting my everyday cooking in IG. This Monday I cooked brinjal - drumstick Kara  kuzhambu for lunch and shared it in IG. After seeing that Amma suggested my Chennai Neighbor Aunt's Kathirikai Murungakkai Poriyal. 

After I become active in blog and started posting in Facebook, Amma joined FB. I was telling her about my recent madness for IG and she joined IG just to see my posts. For every daughter their mom is the world's best chef, and I can definitely say it is vice vera for every mom. Whatever I post there will one like from my lovely heart. As always Amma was proud and showed my kuzhambu feed to Aunty, and she suggested this recipe. I have tasted this many times in her home but forgot about it. I thought of making a note in my blog before I could forget it.

I have posted lot of Aunty's recipes in my blog. Vendakkai Puli kuzhambu, Potato thokku , Paruppu Urundai kuzhambu are few of the recipes I could immediately recollect. 

If you are regular to TMF you would have noticed a lot of Brinjal based recipes here. Couple of brinjal based recipes that I have posted before,

Brinjal recipes in TMF

This times it is with yet another favorite veggie - Drumstick.Kathirikai Murungakkai Poriyal can be prepared within 15 minutes. Aunty makes two version of this combo on is this Kathirikai Murukankkai thokku and other is pori kuzhambu,  you will see the recipes of kuzhambu when I do kuzhambu series.  

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Kathirikai Murungakkai Poriyal | Brinjal Drumstick Thokku

Brinjal Drumstick Curry is a delicious South Indian style semi - dry poriyal. Kathirikai Murungakkai flavorful poriyal tastes yummy as a side with any rice accompaniment or can also be mixed with rice and taken as a variety rice.
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Course: Poriyal
Cuisine: Indian
Author: Vidya Srinivasan

Ingredients

  • Brinjal - 6
  • Fresh /Frozen Drumstick - 15 I used frozen
  • Onion - ½
  • Tomato - 1
  • Garlic - 1 tbsp
  • Ginger - 1 tsp
  • Tamarind extract - ¼ tsp
  • Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp
  • Chilli powder - 1 tsp
  • Salt - as needed
  • Sugar - pinch
  • Oil - 1 tsp
  • To temper :
  • Sesame oil - ½ tbsp
  • Mustard seeds - ¼ tsp
  • Channa dal - ½ tsp
  • Curry leaves - few
  • Hing - generous pinch

Instructions

  • Add oil to the pan and when the oil is hot add all the ingredients listed under “to temper”; let it splutter
  • Add onion and cook for 2 minutes
  • Add salt and cook till onions are translucent
  • Add tomatoes, ginger and garlic; cook till tomatoes turns mushy
  • Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and cook for a minute
  • Add tamarind extract and mix well
  • Add brinjal and drumstick; mix well
  • Add ½ cup of water and mix well. Cover and cook for 7-8 minutes till the veggies are cooked; Stirring in between
  • Sprinkle some water if required
  • Add sugar and 1 teaspoon of oil; cook for a minutes and switch off

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Notes

  1. Coconut, fennel seeds, poppy seeds can be grind into a paste and added for extra flavour
  2.  Cooking time may vary depending on the brinjal and drumstick. sprinkle some water if required
  3. if you are using regulare tamarind extract add around 3 tablespoon dilated + water
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Ingredients :

Brinjal - 6

Fresh /Frozen Drumstick - 15 (I used frozen)

Onion - ½

Tomato - 1

Garlic - 1 tbsp

Ginger - 1 tsp

Tamarind extract - ¼ tsp

Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp

Chilli powder - 1 tsp

Salt - as needed

Sugar - pinch

Oil - 1 tsp

To temper : 

Sesame oil - ½ tbsp

Mustard seeds - ¼ tsp

Channa dal - ½ tsp

Curry leaves - few

Hing - generous pinch

Method:

  • Add oil to the pan and when the oil is hot add all the ingredients listed under "to temper"; let it splutter 
  • Add onion and cook for 2 minutes
  • Add salt and cook till onions are translucent 
  • Add tomatoes, ginger and garlic; cook till tomatoes turns mushy 

  • Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and cook for a minute
  • Add tamarind extract and mix well
  • Add brinjal and drumstick; mix well
  • Add ½ cup of water and mix well. Cover and cook for 7-8 minutes till the veggies are cooked; Stirring in between

  • Sprinkle some water if required
  • Add sugar and 1 teaspoon of oil; cook for a minutes and switch off

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3 Comments

  1. Glad to hear your Mom has caught the IG Bug and its always a great deal of happiness when they see our work and feel proud about it. Loved the recipe and I bet any south indian loves Kathrikai, I myself have a sabzi with kathrikai atleast twice a week as I cannot ever get enough of it. I loved the inclusion of drumsticks which I have never tried before.

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