MILAKOOLAM (CURD BASED CURRY)

MILAKOOLAM


Milakoolam is a simple curry which goes well along with rice, dhalia, kitchadi etc.  It is a simple moru curry (curd curry) with flavour of kala miri  and jeera (black pepper and cumin seeds).  During my childhood, my class mates aunty used to prepare this and i used to love it along with the pulungalarisi chadam (brown boiled  rice).

Easy to prepare, tasty too.  Even if you do not use vegetables, you can use some manathakali vattal, chundakka vattal or lotus stem vattal (tamarakizhangu vattal). vattal is a dried variety of any vegetable viz turkey berry, lotus stem, black night shade or black berry night shade or Mokoi in Hindi.

 

Another variation is to prepare  the same with White and Yellow Pumpkin with little  moongdal in it and temper with crushed Black Pepper and Cumin seeds.

Preparation time: 10 minutes
cooking time: 10 minutes
serves: 2

 Ingredients:

1/2 tsp crushed cumin and pepper
a pinch of asafoetida
a pinch of turmeric powder
1 cup beaten curd
2 tbsp vegetables chopped (raw banana or yam or both)  alternatively, use the vattals (dried black berry, turkey berry, lotus stem - fry and add it along with the tempering.)
salt as per taste

Tempering:

1 tsp oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
1/4 tsp fenugreek seeds
1 dried red chilli
few curry leaves.

Method:
1.  Cook the vegetables with 1 cup water by adding required amount of salt, asafoetida, crushed cumin and pepper, turmeric powder.

2.  When the vegetables are cooked, add the beaten curd mix well just keep on the stove for  one  minute. Do not boil. Switch off the stove.

Temper with the ingredients mentioned above and serve hot with rice, kichadi, dalia etc.



milakoolam

 
Note:  the spice level and oil as per my requirement i am using.  You can increase according to your taste.