Name: Coriander Leaves Thokku Recipe | Kothamalli Thokku Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: 2 Cups Coriander Leaves (Tightly Packed); 1 Gooseberry Size Tamarind; 5-6 Red Chili; ¼ tsp Asafoetida (Asafetida / Hing); 1 tsp Grated Jaggery; 2 tbsp Sesame Oil; 1 tsp Mustard seeds

Coriander Leaves Thokku Recipe | Kothamalli Thokku

Posted on Jul 18th, 2019

by Sowmya Venkatachalam

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Pickles

3.2 from 5 votes

Coriander Leaves Thokku Recipe | Kothamalli Thokku Recipe, is a thick gravy made with coriander leaves and Indian Spices. Its is like our conventional pulikachal mix. This kothamali thokku is a perfect travel friendly recipe and goes good with Idli/Dosa or even with hot steaming rice.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 40 minutes

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Sometimes, we have surplus of coriander leaves. Though we chop and store it in air-tight container and refrigerate it, sometimes it might get rotten. So we can make coriander leaves thogayal or thokku. 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.

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Coriander Leaves Thokku Recipe | Kothamalli Thokku Recipe

Method with Step by Step Pictures:

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.