Khatti Arbi

I am penning down the recipe after a very very long time. Though I have been experimenting and cooking food, i have not been blogging. So here you go with the Khati Arbi recipe. I have cooked Arabi many different ways like with onion tomato gravy, ajwain arbi, chaat masala arbi but this time i wanted to cook it in a different way to give my taste buds a twist.

Ingredients:

• Arbi (Taro root) - 250 gms boiled in salted water and cut into half


• Tomato - 1/2 cup chopped


• Onion - 1 small chopped


• Garlic - 4 clove paste


• Ginger - 1 inch piece grated


• Green Chilli - 2 -3 cut into slices 

• Curry Leaves - 5 - 6

• Tamarind pulp - 3 tbsp (soak tamarind for 15 mins in luke warm water and use that water/pulp)

• Red Chilli powder -1 tsp


• Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp


• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp


• Salt - to taste


• Oil- 1 tbsp

Procedure:

1. Heat oil in the pan and add the cumin seeds.
2. Add the onions, curry leaves, garlic and ginger paste, green chillies and sauté them for 5 mins.
3. Add turmeric and chilli powder and sauté for 2 -3 mins.
4. Add boiled arbi and cook for 2 mins before adding 1/2 cup of water and salt. Cook for 2 mins.
5. Add the tomatoes and sauté for another 5 mins till they are completely mashed.
6. Add tamarind paste and simmer for 15 mins. Remove from the heat and when it is a bit cool, blend the mixture in the blender.

Garnish with the coriander leaves/cilantro.
You can always change the amount of spices in a dish as per your taste.