Simple Kuruma

 Ingredients:

• 1 Onion sliced lengthwise (Red Onion Preferred)
• 2 Tomatoes chopped finely
• 2 Green chillies
• Pinch of Turmeric powder
• 2 tsp Coriander powder
• 2 tsp Red chilli powder
• 3 Garlic pieces(peel off & cut lengthwise)
• 1 tsp Ginger garlic paste
• 1 Cinnamon
• 1 Clove
• 1 Star anise
• 1 Cardamom
• 5 Coconut pieces
• 1 tsp Sombu(Ani seeds)
• Salt
• Oil

Preparation:

Heat oil in a sauce pan and add all spices first followed by green chillies(make a slit).

Fry onions in that for a while and add the sliced garlics.

Now add the ginger garlic paste, fry and then add the chopped tomatoes and salt and cook covered.

When the tomatoes are cooked add all the masala powders and add water and allow it to boil for 5 mins, until the raw smell goes.

Meanwhile grind the coconut pieces with sombu and make the coconut paste with adding little water.

Add this coconut paste to the boiling kuruma and simmer the flame & leave it for 5 more mins.

Garnish with cilantro leaves and serve it with Idli/Dosa/Chapathi.