Ulundhu Kali / Urad Dal Kali Recipe – Tirunelveli Style

ulundhu kali recipe

I hope many of you (ladies) would have tasted this ulundhu kali at the time of puberty. Today I have shared this ulundhu kali recipe learning from my aachi in Tirunelveli / Nellai.  People usually make this ulundu kali using black urad dal with skin and palm jaggery(Karupatti in Tamil) as it is supposed to be more healthy. In Tamil nadu , our grand mothers used to give this for the teen aged girls to make the bones strong especially hip bones. When my Tiruenlveli aachi gave this for me, I have literally cried a lot to eat this. But now I know its importance. Nowadays at this early age (30+), we get pains in joints and back very often. We are not able to bend continuously for sometime. We get pain in spine. This shows the weakness of our bones. Urad dal helps to strengthen the bones. 

Apart from this, urad dal has lots of other health benefits too. So its better to have urad dal in our regular diet to avoid all these problems. Apart from eating idli/dosa and vada, I feel this is also a good choice of including urad dal in our daily diet..So lets see how to make this ulundu kali/Urad dal kali at home.

INGREDIENTS

  • URAD DAL – 1/2 cup
  • JAGGERY or PALM JAGGERY – 1/2 cup
  • GINGELY OIL – 1/4 cup
  • CARDAMOM SEEDS – 2 NOS (optional)
  • WATER – 2 cups

METHOD

  • In a kadai, dry roast the urad dal till you get a nice flavor. Powder it in a mixie adding cardamom seeds. Store it in an air tight container.
  • Now take 4 tbsp of urad dal powder in a bowl and mix 2 cups of water.
  • Cook the urad dal for 7-8 mins. It thickens. Stir well for sometime and make sure there are no lumps formed. 
  • Now add the powdered jaggery and mix well. Keep the fire in low flame. Allow it to boil till the raw smell of jaggery emanates. (You can also melt the jaggery, strain the syrup and add to urad dal). 
  • Add the gingely oil  in 1 tbsp at regular intervals and stir well. Kali absorbs all the oil. Keep mixing in low to medium flame. At one stage, it thickens and leaves the pan completely. It starts to leave little oil in the corners. 
  • U’ll get a glossy, sliding non sticky kali is ready to enjoy .

Delicious , healthy uluthankali is ready to eat !!


NOTE

  • If you use palm jaggery instead of jaggery , dissolve in water and make a syrup. Strain and use.

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20 thoughts on “Ulundhu Kali / Urad Dal Kali Recipe – Tirunelveli Style”

  7. MyKitchen Flavors-BonAppetit!.

    We use to do it the same way but with little raw rice flour added and as U correctly said with Palm Jaggery (Karuppu Katti).Nice and Healthy Recipe Dear.Luv it.

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  12. Jeyashris Kitchen

    my friend's mom makes this very often and those days we eat this as a medicine.but later we started liking this. nice and healthy one. nice click

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  19. Geetha Ravi

    I did this yummy healthy recipe. it was too good nd my hubby likes much. thanks for ur healthy nd delicious recipe..

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