Title: Onion vetha kozhambu
 Categories: Vegetables, Vegetarian, Indian
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
           Lemon-size tamarind;
           -soaked in 1 cup water
           Pearl onions/shallots;peeled
      2    Dried red chilli pods
  1 1/2 ts Sambar powder
  1 1/2 ts Rice flour; mixed with a
           -little water for thickening
           Salt; to taste
           Mustard (seasoning)
           Chana dal (seasoning)
           Curry leaves (seasoning)
      1 pn Hing
      2 tb Oil
 
  Warm oil. Season with mustard , chana dal and curry powder. Saut‚
  peeled onions till translucent. Add squeezed out extract of tamarind.
  Throw the sambar powder, salt and hing in. Let simmer till onions are
  cooked. Add dissolved rice flour water for thickening. Stir and wait
  till it simmers again a couple of minutes. Remove.
  
  Variations:
  
  Tomatoes with chick peas makes a delicious vatha kozhambu. Add some
  slit green chillies if you would like to spike it up. Other
  suggestions are diced sweet potato, diced butternut squash, daikon
  (Chinese radish), drumsticks (available fresh in Indian stores or
  canned, pre-cooked) all on their own.
  
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