Puli Molaga (Chillies in Tamarind Sauce)

Description: Its a kind of chilli sauce with the whole chilli in it.

Ingredients:
1) 100 gms Indian green chillies (the country variety)
2) Lemon sized tamarind pulp
3) 1tsp each of mustard and cumin seeds
4) small onions (sambhar onions) a handful
5) 2 green chillies

Method:
Grind to a paste nos 2-5 and keep aside.
Slit the 100 gms of green chillies
In a saucepan take about a litre of water and add the ground paste, salt as per taste and one tsp of turmeric powder and the slit green chillies and cook on simmer mode.

The chillies will go soft on boiling and the water content will reduce to about 200ml. Bring down from the fire and cool and store in a bottle (could be refrigerated too)
This serves as an excellent sauce or even a side dish (for the brave).

At my hamlet down in South Tamilnadu folks did not have money to afford a vegetable side dish and hence they prepared this and used a little at a time for almost a month. My maternal grandmom made these and I learnt it from her.

The proper method to savour it:
Take out a chilli or two along with some of the sauce and put on a small plate beside the huge one you use to gorge your food on;)))

After pushing a morsel of rice into your mouth, chew on the rice/sambhar mixture and when your mouth is half full, take a chilli and suck on it, the pungent/sour sauce will now enter your gob;)))

Try to mix that along with the rice/sambhar mixture in your mouth and deglutate after chewing well.

The pungency should make your eyes red and your nose water like as if the Hoover Dam's suddenly sprung a leak;))))

The next step is entirely for the brave(which automatically means it isnt for the femmes....dang! the MCP that I am;))))

If sucking on the sauce/chilli wasnt enough go ahead and take a bite on the chilli and this time like fine wine roll it in your mouth for a few seconds and then swallow.

If you are ok with this step, the next time you visit a Mexican restaurant, the dishes there might seem like sweetmeats to you...however if you have a sensitive digestive system, the next morning might pose a wee bit of a problem....you might want to install an airconditioning system under the potty before you hit the bogs;))))

Cheers and folks let me know if you tried this recipe. (You neednt write about your escapades in the loo...no such obscentiy is allowed in my blog and that too a Food blog;))))))

Uff! I am incorrigible :)))