Coriander Leaves Thokku Recipe | Kothamalli Thokku Recipe

Coriander leaves Thokku (Kothamalli Thokku) is another travel friendly recipe. For long time travel, we always plan ahead about many things. One of the important aspect in travel is the food. Many of us are not a great fan of restaurant food. Once a while, we love to have restaurant food, but to have it continuously might affect our digestive system because of many artificial substances being added to food in restaurants. So many of us plan to take some homemade travel safe dishes.
Coriander leaves thokku is one such wonderful dish which is travel safe dish too. This dish you could make it very quickly and the aroma of the coriander leaves is extraordinary. We can make this yumy thokku and mix with hot steaming rice along with a spoon of gingelly oil. If you are making this for travel, then add 2 tablespoon of oil as a top layer of the thokku before closing the thokku with a lid.

Coriander Leaves Thokku Recipe | Kothamalli Thokku Recipe

Preparation and Yield:
Preparation time 10 mins
Cooking Time 30 mins
Servings 4

Coriander Leaves Thokku Recipe | Kothamalli Thokku Recipe
Ingredients:
Tightly packed Coriander Leaves 2 Cups*
Tamarind 1 gooseberry size
Red Chilli 5-6
Hing 1/4 teaspoon
Grated Jaggery 1 teaspoon
Oil 2 tablespoon
Mustard Seeds 1 teaspoon
* 1 Cup = 250ml

Coriander Leaves Thokku Recipe | Kothamalli Thokku Recipe
Method:

1. Remove the leaves and thin stem of the coriander leaves and measure it and clean it nicely

Heat 1 teaspoon of oil, add tamarind, red chilli and saute it for couple of minutes. Then add the saute red chilli and tamarind in a mixer and grind it nicely

Then add washed coriander leaves and grind it to a smooth paste by adding only little water.

Heat the remaining oil in the pan again and add the mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds starts to sputter, add the ground coriander-spice paste along with salt and allow the thokku to oil for 10 minutes in low flame. After 10 minutes, you can see the oil starts oozing out of the thokku and the thokku would have become thick also. Add jaggery now and mix well and remove from flame.

Now Coriander Leaves Thokku (Kothamalli Thokku) is now ready to serve!

Coriander Leaves Thokku Recipe | Kothamalli Thokku Recipe