Pathiya Samayal Recipes #9 | Pottukadalai Thogaiyal | Pori Kadalai Thuvayal

Whenever we fall it and feel very tired, there are some custom comforting foods. We realy feel like being under mom's cuddle, if we have such foods. I am not feeling well the paste two days and living on rasam rice. I am not healthy enough to make a proper side dish for rasam. If I think of a simple side dish, only pottukadalai thogaiyal or porikadalai thuvayal comes to mind. It is simple and tasty. It really brings back my childhood memoirs. Also post-pregnncy care I received from my mom's home.

When I was young, my mom and athai used to make two common thogaiyals when we went sick. One is siruparuppu thogaiyal. Another one is porikadala thogaiyal. They used ammi to powder and make them. Feeling nostalgic and having a spoon of rasam rice with thogaiyal. What more ?

Pottukadalai Thogaiyal | Porikadalai Thuvayal

Prep Time : 5 mins	Cooking Time: 5 mins
Yield: 1 cup	Serving Size: 1 tablespoon	Calories per Serving: 50

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup of Pottukadalai or Roasted Gram
• 2 tsp grated coconut
• 1 small piece of tamarind or puli
• 3 to 4 red chillies
• 4 or 5 garlic cloves
• a handful of curry leaves (optional)
• rock salt - little

Quick Procedure

• Take pottu kadalai, coconut, red chillies, garlic and tamarind in a blender
• Add required salt. Powder it in the mixie.
• Add water and grind it once again.
• You will get a thogayal or thuvayal with very nice flavor.

Step-wise Pictures

Take pottu kadalai, coconut, red chillies, garlic and tamarind in a blender

Add required salt.

Powder it in the mixie. Make sure it is powdered well.

Add water and grind it once again.

You will get a thogayal or thuvayal with very nice flavor.

Simple pottukadala thogiyal or porikadalai thuvayal to have with curd rice or rasam rice. Perfect comfort food !!