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Manathakkali Kaai Kara Kuzhambu | Wonderberry Night Shade Green Fruit Gravy

October 9, 2012 By Sangeetha Priya 11 Comments

Nowadays getting this manathakkali keerai/ wonderberry green leaves bunch in local market and luckily saw one bunch with lot of green fruits (FRESH!!! FRESH!!!), grabbed it immediately by keeping this Manathakkali Kai Kara Kuzhambu on mind. I came to know about this dish when I stayed in hostel for my Under Graduation. 10 days once can except this gravy from our cook and only few like me dare to taste this because of its bitterness…After that I never tried nor tasted it anywhere. When I googled I couldn’t find the exact one so I used the steps I follow for Araithuvitta pavakkai puli kulambu. Wow I got the perfect taste how our hostel cook make and luckily with no bitterness (I tasted the raw fruit before making gravy which bitter much), for that you have to saute well in oil for a while. Hope I had given a very healthy gravy a best medicine for ulcer/diabetes/healing wound so and so, also called as medicinal plant (Hierba Mora in Spanish)…I rarely prefer dried manathakkali vathal because of its high salt content but if you don’t get fresh fruits then try with dried once make sure to rinse well in water to get rid of extra salt before making gravy. Recipe Source :- Own

Ingredients for Manathakkali Kaai Kara Kuzhambu

Fresh Green Fruit/Manathakkali Kaai – 1/2 Cup (replace with dried manathakali vathal)
Shallots – 10 Number (Highly recommended)
Garlic – 5 Number (Optional)
Tomato – 1/2 Number
Cumin – 1/2 Tbsp
Pepper – 2tsp
Coriander Powder – 1 Tbsp
Whole Red Chili (Or) Red Chili Powder/Sambar Powder – 3 Numbers or 1n1/2tsp (Spice up as you like)
Shredded Coconut – 1/4 Cup
Curry Leaves – Few
Water and Salt – As Needed
Tamarind Juice – 1/2 Cup
Oil – 2 Tbsp

Method

  • I have sliced the shallots and garlic roughly.
  • Heat 2 tsp of oil and in quick succession add onion, garlic, cumin, pepper, red chili, half of curry leaves, Tomato and salt.
  • Saute well in medium flame when onion changes color and tomato mashes up add coriander .powder, coconut and remove from heat.
  • Cool the mixture and grind finely with required water.
  • Heat the remaining oil, temper with mustard, when splutters add curry leaves then green fruit and few salt.
  • Toss well in oil in medium flame for 5 mins or otherwise the fruit pops a bit with oil.
  • Add the tamarind juice and allow boiling, after 3-4 mins of boiling add the ground paste.
  • Add enough water and cook in medium flame till oil separates.
  • I can’t wait to taste it so when saw few oil spots over the gravy I removed from heat.

Picture  I – Shallot coconut mixture ready to grind.
II – Fresh green fruit yet to clean.
III – Sauting in oil.
IV – Tamaring juice and ground paste added at this time.
V – Gravy is almost done.

Note:

  1. Take time to fry the fruits in oil that suppresses the bitter taste.
  2. Can add few jaggery in the gravy.
  3. Manathakkali Kai Kara Kuzhambu goes well with rice and tiffin varieties.

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  1. sangeethapriya

    March 8, 2013 at 2:29 pm

    I am glad that you tried n came out well…Thanks Manju, Keep trying my recipes n u made my day 🙂

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  2. manjusri shaji

    March 8, 2013 at 10:04 am

    Hai,
    I am an "L" board in cooking. I dont know the basics of cooking and i have to browse for each n every dish. i seriously dint know what to do with manathakkali n i was not satisfied with any recipe i browsed. n thank god i could find yours and got impressed and tried it out.
    Seriously amazing taste. Thanx for the recipe. N i ve become a happy reader of ur blog from then.
    A small variation which i did was ,I added a few fenugreek seeds while tempering and a piece of jaggery at the end

    Keep up ur good work
    Regs,
    Manju sri

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  3. Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj

    October 20, 2012 at 3:22 pm

    nice one sangeetha… in my hostel too they served this manathakkali kuzhambu… where did u studied dear???
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  4. Divya Pramil

    October 12, 2012 at 3:57 am

    Sounds so delicious and no bitterness then definitely am gonna try this when I get fresh manathakali 🙂
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    October 12, 2012 at 1:46 am

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    October 10, 2012 at 9:51 am

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    • Sangeetha @ Nitha's Kitchen

      October 10, 2012 at 3:14 pm

      This is my memorable first badge, thanks for considering my recipe  Happy event hosting, expecting ur nxt event soon…Send ur email id to nithaskitchen@harinita.com…

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  7. Sangeetha

    October 9, 2012 at 8:11 pm

    loved this tangy n yummy kuzhambu, healthy indeed…great with hot rice n papad…
    Thanks for linking it to my event.

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    • Sangeetha @ Nitha's Kitchen

      October 10, 2012 at 3:09 pm

      Thks for reminding hot rice n papad, I forget to mention 🙂

      Reply

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