Menthe Soppu Tambuli – is one of the most popular Tulunad healthy yogurt based curries (locally referred to as Tambuli), which is usually served with fresh and hot rice.
Tambuli is not only soothing and healing but is also very tasty. It is a simple dish with just a handful of herbs ground with coconut and a countable few spices and ghee tempering to enhance its flavour. One such variations of tambuli is – Menthe Soppu Tambuli / Fenugreek leaves yogurt curry, which is prepared using menthe soppu / fenugreek leaves.
A typical of a lunch served in a traditional South Canara household, Tambuli is served as the first course with hot white rice or red boiled rice.
Fenugreek leaves / Methi Leaves / Menthe soppu is one of the most popular, healthy and widely used leafy vegetables, when it comes to Indian style of cooking.
Typically used as a flavour enhancer in cooking, its health benefits are numerous to be listed here. Among others, it acts as a coolant and treats several stomach related issues such as constipation, gastric problem etc. High on nutrients, it is considered good even for skin related ailments.
Few other Tamubli recipes:
Fresh fenugreek leaves straight from my little garden – I was a happy mom when I served this highly nutritious and healthy tambuli to my little girl.
Few other fewnugreek leaves recipes:
What more, this dish is quick and easy to prepare too.
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Total time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Serves: 3
Main Ingredients:
Menthe soppu: 1 cup
Fresh grated coconut: ½ cup
Pepper: ½ tsp.
Cumin seeds: 1 tsp.
Ghee / Clarified butter: 1 tsp.
Buttermilk: ½ cup (You may even use yogurt)
Salt: To taste
For Tadka / Tempering:
Cumin Seeds: ½ tsp.
Mustard seeds: ½ tsp.
Ghee : 1 tsp.
Method:
- In a pan, add a tsp. of ghee and fry cumin seeds and pepper in it. Now add the fresh leaves and slightly fry it to remove its bitterness. Remove from heat
- In a mixer, put all the above ingredients with freshly grated coconut and grind to a smooth paste
- Transfer the above to a container. Add buttermilk and salt to the above and mix well
- Now, add the ghee tempered mustard seeds and cumin seeds to the above and mix well
- Serve with hot rice!!!
Note :
- If you do not have buttermilk, you may even add yogurt to it. Buttermilk brings In the slight sourness to the dish. Tambuli still tastes good, with sourless yogurt, though slightly differently from the one prepared using buttermilk
- You may consider adding more pepper to it. This tambuli is kid friendly
Menthe soppu stories:
I haven’t seen such a welcome and celebration of sorts of the most awaited and beautiful season of the year, the Spring, as witnessed in Stuttgart. Stuttgart by itself is a beautiful town surrounded by hills and vineyards. So, one can imagine how with the onset of spring, the greenery around too spreads as if a fairy just left her magic bout here. Even the kindergarten going kids hum the same / similar songs to welcome the spring – Immer wieder kommt ein neuer Frühling… which simply says that “The spring comes every year, but every year has a different spring…”.
Lot of flowers, lot of greenery around, I too couldn’t stop myself from having a small little green patch in my tiny balcony. Yes. I started it right with the items in my ‘Masala Box / Spices Box’! I readied my pots and partitioned and labelled them for the different seeds I planned to sow. I sowed several seeds of herbs and later, continued with some flowering plants, and the first of them to grow was Fenugreek leaves. Yes, in no time, it grew and was all ready for the first harvest. I prepared several dishes with my subsequent crops. Needless to say, one of the few firsts using my home-grown fenugreek leaves was Fenugreek Leaves Tambuli.
I can’t tell you the satisfaction that I had in having home grown, fresh, chemical free herbs in my cooking.
Each place has a different way to celebrate the wonders of nature. And Stuttgart or Germany in general is no different. Stuttgart sees a lot of fests at different areas in Frühling / Spring time. The Cannstatter Frühlingsfest is one of the best and well known in this region. Men and women come dressed in the local traditional attire to this fest, which by itself is so very beautiful. Food, fun, entertainment, drinks, music and people – this describes the Cannstatter fest in a nutshell. Not just Frühling / Spring, Stuttgart welcomes every season in its own style. Summer is welcomed with the Summer Fest and autumn with the Herbst Fest.
Around mid-spring / summer, there are lot of events and activities everywhere like berries and cherries plucking. Everyone is in a mode of preparing jams and bottling them. It is around the same time that we get to see the vineyards with little bunches of grapes growing, only to be harvested in September / October. Apple orchards too are a feast for our eyes here. In the autumn season, the town of Esslingen (part of Stuttgart city) witnesses fests like Zwiebelfest (Onion Fest) where we get to eat lot of unique onion delicacies along with some fun and entertainment. Esslingen also witnesses ‘Lichter Nacht’ over one of the weekends in Autumn where-in the streets are lit up and there is music and entertainment along the streets. And the list goes on…
In short, the spring calls for the celebration of nature and this goes on until the onset of winter!!! The joy of bringing some greenery into your own little space and celebrating it, is second to none.
Thambuli one of the South canara delicacy..and a varient which I like a lot..
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