Garlic Thokku

Ingredients:

• 50 Gms. Ginger
• 50 Gms. Tamarind
• 250 Gms. Garlic
• 4 Teaspoons Red Chilly Powder
• 1 Teaspoon Mustard Seed Powder
• 1 Teaspoon Fenugreek Powder (fried and powdered)
• 4 to 6 Table spoons Gingelly Oil
• 1 Small piece of Jaggery
• Salt to taste
• Curry leave

Method:

• First peel ginger and cut in to small pieces.
• Peel garlic and make pieces
• Wash and soak tamarind in 4 teaspoons of water for 1/2 an hour.
• Put ginger, garlic and tamarind in a mixer grinder and grind well
• Pour oil in a pan and make seasoning
• Add the ginger mixture in the pan and mix well
• Add red chilly powder, fenugreek powder, mustard powder and salt.
• Mix well and allow it to cook well.
• After some time add the powdered Jaggery in the thokku
• And mix well.
• Add curry leaves and when oil comes out of thokku, you switch off the stove.
• After it cools transfer the garlic thokku in a jar or bottle.
• This is one of the best thokku .
• You can keep for more than a year.