Mulligatunny

Ingredients

• a dessert-spoonful of tamarind
• six red chillies
• six cloves of garlic
• a tea-spoonful of mustard seed
• a salt-spoonful of fenugreek seed
• twelve black peppercorns
• a tea-spoonful of salt
• six leaves of haray-jpauh
• a pint of water
• two small onions
• a dessert-spoonful of ghee

Method

1. 1

   Pound tamarind, chillies, garlic, mustard seed, fenugreek, peppercorns, salt, and leaves into a paste.

2. 2

   Add water and boil for a quarter of an hour.

3. 3

   Fry onions in ghee until brown, strain pepper-water into the chatty, and cook for five minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Culinary jottings (1885) by A. R. Kenney-Herbert, page 174. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mulligatunny. If it be admitted that the knack of curry-making has gradually passed away from the native cook, I think it must also be allowed that a really well-made mulligatunny is, comparatively speaking, a thing of the past. Perhaps, MULLIGATUNNY. 307 then, a few words regarding this really excellent, and at times, most invigorating soup may be acceptable. In attempting this, I am anxious to address my observations to vegetarians, as well as to those who have no objection to eat meat, for I hope to be able to show that a very ex- cellent mulligatunny can be made without any assistance from flesh or fowl. This preparation, originally peculiar to Southern India, derives its name from two Tamil words — molegoo (pepper), and tunnee (water). In its simple form, as partaken of by the poorer natives of Madras, it is, as its name indi- cates, a " pepper-water" or soupe maigre, which Mootoo- samy makes as follows : — He pounds together a dessert- spoonful of tamarind, six red chillies, six cloves of garlic, a tea-spoonful of mustard seed, a salt-spoonful of fenugreek seed, twelve black peppercorns, a tea-spoonful of salt, and six leaves of haray-jpauh. When worked to a paste, he adds a pint of water, and boils the mixture for a quarter of an hour. While this is going on, he cuts up two small onions, puts them into a chatty, and fries them in a des- sert-spoonful of ghe

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