Sambar Balli Thumpu Huli, a healthy side dish for rice
Q - What is Sambar Balli?
A – Indian Borage or Oregano is Sambar Balli in Kannada, a
South Indian language.
Q - What is Thumpu Huli?
A - Thumpu means ‘cooling’
in Kannada. Huli means ‘sambar, a side
dish for rice’ in Kannada.
On the whole, a
Thumpu Huli is something that is cooling for the stomach. It is a cooling dish
for rice made using curds/butter milk as base.
Sambar Balli is
a commonly grown plant in most Indian homes. It is a fast growing bushy plant,
it spreads around easily too. When a short piece of the tip of the plant is cut
and inserted in the soil, it easily grows up into another plant.
Sambar Balli
leaves have great medicinal values. It is one of the best home remedies for
cold and throat infections. Frequent consuming of these leaves during rainy and
cold season keeps the body warm thus preventing the common cold and flu. The
juice of this leaves is used in the daily routine of small children, even new
born infants.
Ingredients:
- 10 to 12 Sambar Balli Leaves (known as Indian Borage or Oregano)
- Half spoon jeera
- Half spoon whole pepper
- 3-4 spoons of grated coconut
- Ghee or Oil (for frying)
- One cup curd or butter milk
- Salt (according to taste)
For seasoning (optional):
Sesame, jeera, curry leaves, ghee/oil.
Procedure:
- Heat ghee/oil in a pan.
- Add jeera, pepper and sambar balli leaves. Fry for about 2-3 minutes.
- To a blender add all the fried items from the pan, add grated coconut.
- Add some curds (just enough for grinding and making a paste)
- Grind the ingredients and make a fine paste.
- Collect the paste into a different container, add more curds (to thin it down) and salt.
Sambar Balli
Thumpu Huli is ready for serving with hot rice.
You can even
add seasoning to this by frying sesame, jeera and curry leaves in some
ghee/oil. I am lazy enough to skip the seasoning always. :-P.
Sambar Balli leaves can be
replaced with methi leaves or palak (spinach) leaves. The rest of the recipe
remains the same. :-)
Yo can also read a similar Thumpu Huli recipe of Gooseberrie here,
Gooseberry Raita (thampuhulli in kannada):
Gooseberry Raita (thampuhulli in kannada):
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