Simple Mulak Curry / Green chilli curry

It is an easy recipe and if you love the fragrance of fresh chillies, this one is for you.

Ingredients

4 banana peppers

1 green chilli

1 small gooseberry size tamarind (it can vary depending on the  sourness of the tamarind. The tamarind I used was very sour) 

4 or 5 pinches of asafoetida

3 or 3 1/2 cups of water

2 dry red chillies

1 tsp mustard seeds

1 twig curry leaves

3 tbsp coconut oil

salt to taste

Preparation

1. Heat oil in a pan or kadai. Saute the banana peppers and green chilli . Once they are soft and light brown in color, strain them and keep aside.

2. Soak the tamarind in 3 to 31/2 cups of water and extract the pulp.

3. To this add the fried peppers and chilli, asafoetida and salt to taste. Mash the peppers gently with hand and mix well.At this stage, you can add more water if you need.

4.Splutter mustard seeds in the same oil that was used to fry the peppers, then add the dry red chillies and curry leaves. Once the red chillies change its color, switch off the flame.

5. Now pour the banana pepper tamarind juice mix to this. Heat  this mix in low flame for 2 minutes.

It goes well with rice.